Quotes by 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

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

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.
• Galileo Galilei

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.
• Galileo Galilei

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

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

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.
• Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.
• Galileo Galilei

Doubt is the father of invention.
• Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
• Galileo Galilei


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