Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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… — 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
![“Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not…” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70c/galileo-galilei-2377_argument_oh-my-dear-kepler-how-i-wish-that-we-cou_2820576.jpg)
![“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)
