3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei 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.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei 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.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
