Galileo Galilei Quotes.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it’s written, the language of Mathematics.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
And yet it moves.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
Nothing can be taught to a man, only it’s possibly to help him to discover it inside.
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Nonetheless, it moves.
