Quotes by : Galileo Galilei

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names,....

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect....

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

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.....

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which....

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden....

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider....