Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany 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:truthknowledgehumility

“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:knowledgeGodreason

“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:knowledgeuniverse