Religion Quotes by Galileo Galilei

15 Religion quotes by Galileo Galilei

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Galileo’s reflections on religion reveal a mind wrestling with science and belief. These snippets show his cautious respect for faith while championing inquiry, a rare glimpse into the intellectual clash of his era.

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Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

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Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict…

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To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see…

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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended…

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It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true…

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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and…

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It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which…

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The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is…

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They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly...…

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Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and…

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I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary…

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The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to…

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit…

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,…

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“(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.”

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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because…

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Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…

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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to…

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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…

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Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are…

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