5 Galileo Galilei Quotes on Truth

Galileo Galilei quotes on truth

3. I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis. To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless people (for very great is the number of the stupid). (Quoted in Hermann Kesten, Copernicus and His World, trans. by E.b. Aston and Norbert Gutterman, NY, Roy Publishers, 1945, p.349, emphasis added)

16. See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

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

20. Eppur si muove

23. In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.