Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Galileo Galilei
Age: 77 †
Born: 1564
Born: February 15
Died: 1642
Died: January 8
Astrologer
Astronomer
Engineer
Inventor
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Polymath
Scientist
University Teacher
Galileo
G. Galilei
Even
Stand
Cloaks
Beauty
Improbable
Simple
Hidden
Facts
Explanation
Reality
Drop
Seems
Forth
Firsts
Naked
Scant
First
Seem
Cloak
More quotes by Galileo Galilei
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which proceed very cautiously and admit nothing as established until it has been rigorously demonstrated.
Galileo Galilei
You may force me to say what you wish you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.
Galileo Galilei
To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages...
Galileo Galilei
I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Galileo Galilei
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Galileo Galilei
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
Galileo Galilei
You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
Galileo Galilei
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Galileo Galilei
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha.
Galileo Galilei
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
Galileo Galilei
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.
Galileo Galilei
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galileo Galilei
Nature's great book is written in mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei
Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.
Galileo Galilei
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?
Galileo Galilei