THE 33 BEST PHRASES OF GALILEO GALILEI [WITH IMAGES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

I leave you the best phrases of Galileo Galilei (1564 -1642), considered the father of astronomy, physics and modern science. His main contributions are support for the Copernicus Revolution, the improvement of the telescope, the first law of motion and multiple astronomical studies.

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-I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.

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

-Where the senses fail us, reason must intervene.

-The greatest wisdom that exists is to know yourself.

-Passion is the genesis of genius.

-There are those who reason well, but there are many more who reason badly.

-In my opinion, nothing happens against nature except the impossible and that never happens.

-I have loved the stars too dearly to be afraid of the night.

-If I started my studies again, I would follow Plato's advice and start with mathematics.

-Whatever they say, the Earth moves.

-And yes, it keeps moving.

-The Milky Way is more than an innumerable mass of stars united in groups.

-The infinite and indivisible transcends our finite understanding, the former due to its magnitude, the latter due to its smallness. Imagine what they are when combined.

-Measure what can be died and make measurable what cannot be measured.

-You can't teach someone something, you can only help them find it inside.

- It must be said that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

-In matters of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of an individual.

-Doubt is the father of invention.

-Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

-First of all, I saw the Moon as close as if it were barely two semi-diameters from Earth. After the Moon, I frequently observed other celestial bodies, both fixed stars and planets, with incredible delight.

-Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has tried to make us forget their use.

-It is a wonderful and delicious sight to observe the body of the moon.

-The aim of science is not to open the door to eternal knowledge, but to limit eternal error.

-I think that in the discussion of natural problems, we should not start with the scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

-The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols.

-Speaking obscurely can be done by anyone; clearly, very few.

-The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and depending on it, can still make a bunch of grapes ripen, as if it had nothing to do in the universe.

-The increase in known truths stimulates research, creation and growth of art.

-The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way to heaven.

-Let's say that there are two types of poetic minds: one capable of inventing fables and the other willing to believe them.

-Infinite is the number of fools, of those who know nothing. Quite a few are those who know very little about philosophy, few are those who know some little thing, very few who know somewhere. Only one God is the one who knows everything.

-Ignorance is the mother of evil and all other vices.