Galileo Galilei Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

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

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

Nonetheless, it moves.

Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.

See now the power of truth.

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possible to help him to discover it inside.