Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance.
Born: February 15, 1564, Pisa, Italy
Died: January 8, 1642, Arcetri, Italy
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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.
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.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
