Quotes by : Galileo Galilei

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided....

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

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start....

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything,....

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

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

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with....

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.