Top 21 Quotes by Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

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.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

And yet it moves.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.