The quotations of

Galileo Galilei

Italian polymath

1564–1642

6 quotes, most often on Science and God. Part of the Scientists collection.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
- God
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
- God
- Science
Philosophy is written in this grand book⁠—I mean the Universe⁠—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.
- Philosophy
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.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), Salviati
- Beauty
- Science
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 glance through the telescope?
Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana
- Clever Jabs
- Science
To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
- Genius
- Ideas

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