If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. -Galileo Galilei Education
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 Nature
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 Science
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei Learning
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 God
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 them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. -Galileo Galilei Men
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 them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters. -Galileo Galilei Business
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. -Galileo Galilei Science
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 Religion
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. -Galileo Galilei Nature
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo Galilei Truth
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. -Galileo Galilei Brainy
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 Nature
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 Nature