Galileo Galilei Quotes

“Those truths which we know are very few in comparison with those which we do not know.”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

topic:truth knowledge humility

“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:truth science

“For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:truth knowledge understanding

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

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

topic:knowledge God reason

“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:knowledge understanding

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

topic:knowledge universe

“To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:God power reason

“Please observe, gentlemen, how 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, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:beauty simplicity

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