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Galileo Galilei [1564-1642] Italian

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Scientist, Astronomer

Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, he played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.

Science, Religion, Beauty, Brainy, Education, God, Learning, Nature, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.	Brainy	101
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.	Truth	102
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.	Religion	103
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.	Learning	104
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.	Science	105
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.	God, Religion	106
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.	Science	107
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.		108
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.		109
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.		110
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.	Nature	111
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.		112
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.	Education	113
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.		114
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.	Beauty	115
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.	Science	116
And yet it moves.		117
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.		118
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.		119
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.		120
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.		121

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