Quotes by Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself

#Men And Women

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can...

#Religion, #Truth, #Understanding

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and...

#Advice

I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the...

#Stupidity

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us...

#Belief, #God, #Intelligence

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with...

#Beginning, #Problems

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created...

#Mankind, #Religion

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may...

#Galileo Galilei

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which...

#Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

#Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

#Galileo Galilei

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

#Galileo Galilei