Galileo Galilei Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Heaven, Way

• The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Greatness, Shining

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Heaven, Holy

• I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Stars, Moving, Science

  "The English Renaissance: An Anthology of Sources and Document". Book by Kate Aughterson (p. 383), June 1, 2002.

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

• I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Nature, Father

• I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Heaven, Degrees

  Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

• Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Men, Discovery

  Letter to Élie Diodati (p. 279), January 2, 1638.

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