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Galileo Galilei Quotes
«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.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Facts
| Keywords:
at first, cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloaks, drop, explanation, improbable, naked, scant, scanted
«The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cluster, clustered, clusters, innumerable, milky, Milky Way, planted, The Milky Way
«Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Language,
Mathematics,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
mathematical, symbols
«Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
and others, dissolved, occurrence, occurrences, periods, shorter, spots, surface of
«It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion,
Truth,
Understanding
| Keywords:
abstruse, affirm, Holy Bible, pious, prudent, The Holy Bible, untruth, untruths
«But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant, either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, arrangement, conceived, dozen, great seal, inventions, seal, Seal of, stupendous, sublimity, The Admirable, two dozen, various
«To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
astronomy, confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, enjoin
«They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
heresy, oppress, preach, pulpit, pulpits, take up, unjustly, whereby
«Having been admonished by this Holy Office [the Inquisition] entirely to abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the center of the universe and immovable, and that the Earth was not the center of the same and that it moved... I abjure with a since»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, admonish, admonished, admonishing, center of the universe, immovable, inquisition, inquisitions, the Inquisition
«I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conceive of, equable, horizontal, horizontal plane, impediments, movable, projected, The Plane