Explore Quotes by Galileo Galilei

What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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