Galileo Galilei Quotes

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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Inspirational, Truth, Science

"Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

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Happiness, Inspirational Life, Answers

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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

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Hands, Law, Language

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

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Inspirational, Attitude, Learning

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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

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Men, Sparks, Tiny

"Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 134 - 135), 1957.

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Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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Knowing, Greatest Wisdom, Thyself

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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 us to forego their use.

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Spiritual, Atheist, Believe

"Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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Two truths cannot contradict one another.

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Truth, Two

Galileo Galilei (1997). “Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

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Wise, Modest, Ready

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To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

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Language, Mathematics, Written

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

Inspirational, Funny, Summer

"Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.

Galileo Galilei

Physics

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There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Galileo Galilei

Reason, Wells

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Nonetheless, it moves.

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Moving

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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

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Greatest Wisdom, Knowing Oneself, Oneself

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

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Science, Heaven, Way

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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

Galileo Galilei

Gratitude, Mean, Hands

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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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Perception, Steps, Failing

Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

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Math, People, Judging

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But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

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Understanding, Infinity, Imagine

"On the loadstone and magnetic bodies".

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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

Galileo Galilei

Learning, Science, Discovery

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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 for their salvation, which, being far above man's understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.

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Mean, Men, Thinking

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Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

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Impossible, Contrary

Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.

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Nature, Dark, Moon

Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.201, Oxford University Press

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Born: February 15, 1564
Died: January 8, 1642
Occupation: Physicist
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