Galileo Galilei

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes read more

The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect read more

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.