I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness. — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human… — 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
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.… — 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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