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Galileo Galilei

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Galileo Galilei clearly understood the power of language. Their thinking spans from Science to Religion, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Browse 11 quotes by Galileo Galilei that cover ground from Science, Religion, Nature, Truth, and Learning. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”

— Galileo Galilei

Religion

All Quotes by Galileo Galilei

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”

— Galileo Galilei

Religion

“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

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

— Galileo Galilei

Education

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

— Galileo Galilei

Truth

“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

“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

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

— Galileo Galilei

Science

“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

“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