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
Wine is sunlight, held together by water. Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei
And yet … it moves. Galileo (Attributed after signing a recantation of the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.) Galileo Galilei
Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the universe – which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it. Galileo Galilei