Galileo Galilei
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5 quotes we’ve traced to Galileo Galilei
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”
Verified“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”
Attributed“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual”
Attributed“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe”
Disputed“Wine is sunlight, held together by water”
DisputedNot actually Galileo Galilei
Often misattributed to Galileo Galilei
Famous lines widely pinned on Galileo Galilei that we’ve traced to someone else.
“And yet it moves”
actually Giuseppe Baretti
“It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle”
actually Unknown
“Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences”
actually Roger Bacon
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”
actually Thomas-Henri Martin
“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form created and sustains us”
actually Georg Cantor
“The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes”
actually Cesare Baronio
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself”
actually Edgar Quinet
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