Galileo Galilei Quotes On Sense, Reason, Intellect, And God
Galileo Galilei Quotes: Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance.
Here are 14 great quotes from Galileo Galilei.
Galileo Galilei Quotes
1. "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
2. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
― Galileo Galilei
3. But I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
– Galileo Galilei
4. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
– Galileo Galilei
5. Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.
– Galileo Galilei
6. 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
7. 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
8. In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
– Galileo Galilei
9. 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.
– Galileo Galilei
10. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
– Galileo Galilei
11. Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
– Galileo Galilei
12. Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
– Galileo Galilei
13. 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
14. Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a dark labyrinth.
– Galileo Galilei
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