Quotes by Galileo Galilei

"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."

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

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

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

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"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

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

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

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"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."

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