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Galileo Galilei
Italian
Scientist
Born:
Feb 15
,
1564
Died:
Jan 8
,
1642
First
Man
Nature
Nothing
Science
Universe
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
Man
Met
Something
Never
Him
Learn
Ignorant
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
Truth
Once
Easy
Point
Understand
Discover
Discovered
Truths
Them
The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
Religion
Bible
Way
Go
Heaven
Heavens
Shows
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.
Galileo Galilei
God
Religion
Sense
Believe
Obliged
Feel
Intellect
Intended
Same
Forgo
Endowed
Us
Use
Reason
Who
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
Must
Step
Fail
Where
Senses
Us
Reason
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
Science
Humble
Worth
Single
Thousand
Individual
Single Individual
Questions
Authority
Reasoning
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
Galileo Galilei
Believe
Harmful
Make
Surely
Souls
Proved
Heresy
I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
Galileo Galilei
God
Me
First
Thanks
Pleased
Has-Been
Give
Marvelous
Observer
Make
Been
Infinite
Who
Things
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei
Nature
Nothing
Universe
Else
Sun
Those
Ripen
Had
Around
Still
Bunch
Revolving
Dependent
Planets
Grapes
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
Make
Measurable
Measure
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
Galileo Galilei
Education
Mathematics
Advice
Beginning
Would
Follow
Studies
Were
Again
Plato
Start
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Galileo Galilei
Man
Mind
Dare
Would
Know
Known
Limit
Who
Assert
Set
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
Nature
Man
Hidden
Relentless
Indifferent
Unchangeable
Understandable
Whether
Reasons
Actions
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
Simple
Will
Drop
First
Naked
Beauty
Hidden
Scant
Seem
Facts
Cloak
Improbable
Which
Explanation
Them
Forth
Stand
Even
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei
Me
Science
Experiment
Consider
Would
Constrain
Bound
Answer
Authority
Scriptures
Themselves
Reason
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Galileo Galilei
Daily
Business
Men
Long
Doctors
Become
Young
Cares
Others
Philosophers
Those
Would
Would-Be
Go
Very
Unfit
Order
Anything
Which
While
Title
Young Men
Them
Notice
Who
Many
Keep
Professions
Away
Letters
Utterly
Competent
Universities
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
Book
Language
First
Universe
Our
Unless
Gaze
Philosophy
Composed
Comprehend
Open
Written
Read
Learns
Understood
Continually
Cannot
Grand
Which
Stands
Letters
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Galileo Galilei
Nature
Mind
Unless
Easily
Remembrance
Without
Passes
Stimulated
Human
Them
Acting
Human Mind
Away
Things
Images
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Galileo Galilei
Natural
Problems
Think
Ought
Demonstrations
Begin
Discussion
Experiments
Scriptures
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei
Together
Nothing
Stars
Else
Way
Mass
Clusters
Planted
Milky Way
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
Galileo Galilei
Say
Must
Squares
Many
Numbers
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