To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share
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