We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: People, Love
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Stars
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Ignorance, Attitude
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
—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
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Words
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Science
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Understanding, Discovery
The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.
—Galileo Galilei
Topics: Heaven
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
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
—Galileo Galilei
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