Galileo Galilei Quotes

Most popular Galileo Galilei Quotes

Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe.
— Galileo Galilei Statistics: Concepts and Applications

God

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
— Galileo Galilei
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
— Galileo Galilei

attitude

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
— Galileo Galilei

teaching

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
— Galileo Galilei
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— Galileo Galilei

God science & religion

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
— Galileo Galilei Dialogues Concerning the New Sciences

facts

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

nature sun universe

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure—that is all that agnosticism means. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
— Galileo Galilei

agnostic