More from Galileo Galilei

  1. What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
  2. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.
  3. The Bible tells us how to go to the heavens, not how the heavens go.
  4. Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heav…
  5. The great book of nature is written in mathematical symbols.
  6. Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
  7. Philosophy is written in this grand book- I mean the universe- which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unles…
  8. 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…

All Galileo Galilei quotes