8 Great Galileo Quotes
“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.”
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not
worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the
night.”
“Passion is the genesis of genius.”
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only him discover it
in himself.”
“Measure what measurable, and make measurable what is not
so.”
“Philosophy is written in that great book whichever is
before our eyes – I mean the universe – but we cannot understand it if we do
not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The
book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles,
circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to
comprehend a single word of it’ without which one wanders in vain through a
dark labyrinth.”
Facts and Trivia for Galileo
Galiei’s birthday February 15, 1564:
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Galileo was an Italian physicist,
mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
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Galileo is known as the ‘father of
modern observational astronomy’, ‘father of modern physics’, ‘father of science’,
and ‘father of modern science.’
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Galileo discovered the four largest
satellites of Jupiter
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Galileo was tried by the Inquisition for
his heliocentrism theory, found guilty, forced to recant his statement and
spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
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