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.
-Galileo Galilei
beauty
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
-Galileo Galilei
education
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.
-Galileo Galilei
god
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-Galileo Galilei
learning
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.
-Galileo Galilei
nature
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
-Galileo Galilei
nature
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.
-Galileo Galilei
religion
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
-Galileo Galilei
religion
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.
-Galileo Galilei
science
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo Galilei
science
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.
-Galileo Galilei
truth
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