Quote #21
I never met a man so unknowledgeable, I could not learn something from him.
More from Galileo Galilei
- Eppur si muove
- If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
- Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
- In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a gl…
- I cannot without great wonder, nay more, disbelief, hear it being attributed to natural bodies as a great honor and perfection that they ar…
- Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names aft…