“ I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations. Galileo Galilei
“ Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in whi… Galileo Galilei
“ And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. Galileo Galilei
“ All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
“ Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei
“ In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. 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 an… Galileo Galilei
“ It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei
“ We cannot teach people anything we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei
“ I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for the… Galileo Galilei
“ The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away. Galileo Galilei
“ Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei
“ He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze. Galileo Galilei
“ 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. Galileo Galilei
“ (T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. Galileo Galilei
