(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. – Galileo Galilei
Author : Galileo Galilei
I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work … all the more willingly because I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible […]
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. – Galileo Galilei
By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. – Galileo Galilei
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
Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. – Galileo
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry? – Galileo Galilei