Galileo Galilei quotes commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution Born: 02/15/1564 Died: 01/08/1642 Country: italy

• Doubt is the father of invention. (Galileo Galilei)
• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. (Galileo Galilei) [teach/help/find]
• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei) [point]
• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. (Galileo Galilei) [paradox]
• 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) [facts/willpower/explanation/beauty]
• 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) [god/intellect]
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (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) [think/discussion]
• I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Galileo Galilei) [night]
• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. (Galileo Galilei) [follow/start]
• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Galileo Galilei) [science/goodwill]
• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. (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) [science/goodwill]
• Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. (Galileo Galilei) [measure]
• 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) [nature]
• The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. (Galileo Galilei) [bible]
• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. (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) [sun/universe]
• We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. (Galileo Galilei) [teach/people/help]
• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. (Galileo Galilei)
• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. (Galileo Galilei) [fail]
• And yet it moves. (Galileo Galilei)
• All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)
• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. (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)
• 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)
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. (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)
• I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Galileo Galilei)
• If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. (Galileo Galilei)
• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Galileo Galilei)

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