Quotes About Galilei

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

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 has created and sustains us.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

I have loved the stars to fondly to ever be fearful of the night.