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Galileo Galilei Quotes

Galileo Galilei quotes

Italian Scientist February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642

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We should accept misfortune not only in thanks but in infinite gratitude to providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and the divine. Galileo Galilei
In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror. Galileo Galilei
Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth. Galileo Galilei
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new. Galileo Galilei
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them. Galileo Galilei
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei
To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms ‘large,’ ‘small,’ ‘immense,’ ‘minute,’ etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time ‘immense’ and at another ‘imperceptible. Galileo Galilei
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes? I mean the universe? but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written Galileo Galilei
I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error,... Galileo Galilei
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. Galileo Galilei
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei quote: "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not..."
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei quote: "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the..."
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei quote: "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the..."
Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the Universe. Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei quote: "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn..."
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei

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