Galileo Galilei
Father of observational astronomy and modern physics
Quotes by Galileo Galilei
I have love for science more than for its followers.
The Divine Artist makes things not in a rough outline but in perfect detail.
To understand the Universe, you must understand mathematics.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Holy Writ.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Experimental science is the queen of all the sciences.
Who can find the true cause of the motion of the stars?
The moon is not inhabited.
Jupiter has four satellites.
The telescope has revealed the heavens to us.
In order to understand the phenomena of the universe, we must start from the simplest.
The resistance of bodies to motion is proportional to their weight.
All bodies fall with the same speed.
The pendulum is a useful instrument for measuring time.
Strength in architecture comes from the distribution of weight.
The infinite divisibility of matter.
Copernicus did not invent the heliocentric system.
The tides prove the motion of the Earth.