Galileo Galilei Quotes

La hipótesis es bonita; su única falla es que no está demostrada ni es demostrable. ¿Quién puede no ver que esto es una ficción puramente arbitraria que nombra una nada como existente y no propone nada más que simple no-contradicción?

Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes—I mean the universe…This book is written in mathematical language and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help…one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

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

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Doubt is the father of invention

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.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.