Author of quotes: Galileo Galilei

I will never feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to abandon using it all.
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.

To demand that people give up their own judgment and obey the judgment of others, and to appoint persons totally ignorant of science or art, by the judges over the people the scientists - these are innovations that can bring to death and destroy the state.

The human mind is a creation of God, and, moreover, one of the most excellent.

Still not solved, and I think that human science will never solve, whether the universe is finite or infinite?

Mathematics is the key and the door to all the Sciences.

Nature is making a mockery of the decisions and decrees of princes, emperors and monarchs, and their requirements it would not change one iota of its laws.

Ignorance is the mother of malice, envy, greed and all the other low and gross vices, and sins.

The truth is easy to understand when it opens up, the main thing is to reveal it.

In order to destroy the teaching of Copernicus, it is not enough to shut someone's mouth. Need to ban all astronomical science and, in addition, prohibit anyone to look at the sky!

To talk confused everyone is able to speak clearly - a few.

There is no greater hatred in the world than the hatred of the ignorant to knowledge.

True knowledge - knowledge of the reasons.

Logic is a tool used in philosophy; and how can you be the great master of the build tool, not being able to extract from it a single sound, so you can be a great logician, not knowing how to use logic.

I never met a man so stupid that I couldn't it to learn something.