If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Showing a greater fondness for their own opinions than for truth, they sought to deny and disprove the new things which, if… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses.… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to… — 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 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
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you… — 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… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who… — 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