Galileo Galilei Flashcards
“You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.” ~ Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
“The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it’s written, the language of Mathematics.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement ‘I do not know’.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Two truths cannot contradict one another.” ~ 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.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Nothing can be taught to a man, only it’s possibly to help him to discover it inside.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Nonetheless, it moves.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.” ~ Galileo Galilei
“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” ~ Galileo Galilei
