Galileo Galilei Quotes

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.

Galileo Galilei

If the Earth were not subject to any change I would consider the Earth a big but useless body in universe, paralyzed...superfluous and unnatural.Those who so exalt incorruptibility, unchangeability and the like, are, I think, reduced to saying such things both because of inordinate desire they have to live for a long time and because of the terror they have of death...they do not realize that if men were immortal, they would have never come into the world.

Galileo Galilei

The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

Galileo Galilei