Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei

15-Feb-1564


Italy


Astronomer

Galileo was an Italian astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, philosopher and professor of natural phenomena and enduring effects on the study of physics. He also built a telescope and supported the Copernican theory, which supports a solar system centered on the sun. Galileo was twice accused of superstition by the church, and he wrote a number of books on his views.

QUOTES BY Galileo Galilei


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

"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."

"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."

"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

"Nonetheless, it moves."

"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."

"Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom."

"Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs."

"The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens."

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