Galileo Galilei Quotes

Italian - Scientist | February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

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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.

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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