Galileo Galilei Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years, permits me not to hope release. Added to this (proh dolor! [O misery!]) the sight of my right eye — that eye whose labors (dare I say it) have had such glorious results — is for ever lost. That of the left, which was and is imperfect, is rendered null by continual weeping.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.