"Galileo Galilei", often known mononymously as "Galileo", was an Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution/scientific revolution during the Renaissance. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Nicolaus Copernicus/Copernicanism.

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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Doubt is the father of invention.

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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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

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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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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.

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

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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.

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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.

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