Before we read the Galileo Galilei Quotes, let’s know a bit about who he was;
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes defined as a polymath, from Pisa. He made fundamental contributions to the studies of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the advancement of the scientific strategy.
His definition of (circular) inertia, the law of falling bodies, and parabolic trajectories denoted the start of a crucial change in the investigation of movement. His request that the book of nature was written in the language of mathematics changed the common way of thinking from a verbal, subjective record to a scientific one in which experimentation became a perceived strategy for finding the realities of nature.
Galileo Galilei Quotes
1 – “The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvellously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.” – Galileo Galilei
2 – “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” – Galileo Galilei
3 – “I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.” – Galileo Galilei
4 – “To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.” – Galileo Galilei
5 – “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.” – Galileo Galilei
6 – “And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” – Galileo Galilei
7 – “Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.” – Galileo Galilei
8 – “Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!” – Galileo Galilei
9 – “The sun with all the planets around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.” – Galileo Galilei
10 – “E pur si muove. (It still moves.) (What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)” – Galileo Galilei
11 – “Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?” – Galileo Galilei
12 – “In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.” – Galileo Galilei
13 – “You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo Galilei
14 – “The increases of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” – Galileo Galilei
15 – “The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.” – Galileo Galilei
16 – “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so” – Galileo Galilei
17 – “They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their domination or destruction.” – Galileo Galilei
18 – “E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]” – Galileo Galilei
19 – “To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.” – Galileo Galilei
20 – “Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.” – Galileo Galilei
21 – “It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.” – Galileo Galilei
22 – “In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.” – Galileo Galilei
23 – “See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.” – Galileo Galilei
24 – “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” – Galileo Galilei
25 – “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
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26 – “In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn’t move, they will have reason to boast than be angered.” – Galileo Galilei
27 – “Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.” – Galileo Galilei
28 – “Nature…does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.” – Galileo Galilei
29 – “It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.” – Galileo Galilei
30 – “There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.” – Galileo Galilei
31 – “Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
32 – “I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or the Moon or my glass [telescope].” – Galileo Galilei
33 – “The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn’t like hauling rocks, it’s like, it’s like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.” – Galileo Galilei
34 – “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
35 – “The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.” – Galileo Galilei
36 – “Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Galileo Galilei
37 – “The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.” – Galileo Galilei
38 – “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei
39 – “Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It’s not a book about how the heavens go.” – Galileo Galilei
40 – “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei
41 – “Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.” – Galileo Galilei
42 – “Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.” – Galileo Galilei
43 – “Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.” – Galileo Galilei
44 – “God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.” – Galileo Galilei
45 – “In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.” – Galileo Galilei
46 – “The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.” – Galileo Galilei
47 – “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
48 – “I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.” – Galileo Galilei
49 – “Two truths cannot contradict one another.” – Galileo Galilei
50 – “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
51 – “Where the senses fail us, a reason must step in.” – Galileo Galilei
