The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary… — 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 Image
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 Image
“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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![“Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/96d/galileo-galilei-2377_action_among-the-great-men-who-have-philosophiz_131150.jpg)
