Galileo Galilei quotes - page 3

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition! But they behave to me in order that I may become the ignoramus and the fool of Italy... (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. View quote
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. View quote
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. View quote
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. View quote
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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. View quote
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. View quote
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. View quote
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. (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 judgement upon anything new. View quote
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Passion is the genesis of genius. View quote
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My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? View quote
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I have succeeded in proving; and what I consider more important, there have been opened up to this vast and most excellent science, of which my work is merely the beginning, ways and means by which other minds more acute than mine will explore its remote corners. View quote
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This bounded terminal speed will be called the maximum that such a heavy body can naturally attain through the air. View quote
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Beside themselves with passion, some of them would not be backward even about scheming to suppress and silence their adversaries. View quote
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I should deem it a useless lump in the universe, devoid of activity and, in a word, superfluous and essentially non-existent. This is exactly the difference between a living animal and a dead one. View quote
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I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits. View quote
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It has been observed that missiles and projectiles describe a curved path of some sort; however no one has pointed out the fact that this path is a parabola. But this and other facts. View quote
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Some years ago, as Your Serene Highness well knows, I discovered in the heavens many things that had not been seen before our own age. (Galileo Galilei)
They do not reflect that if men were immortal, they themselves would never have come into the world. View quote
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What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"? People who do this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. View quote
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It always seems to me extreme rashness on the part of some when they want to make human abilities the measure of what nature can do. View quote
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I cannot without great astonishment - I might say without great insult to my intelligence - hear it attributed as a prime perfection and nobility of the natural and integral bodies of the universe that they are invariant, immutable, inalterable, etc., while on the other hand it is called a great imperfection to be alterable, generable, mutable, etc. For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly. If, not being subject to any changes. View quote
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