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. -Galileo Galilei

 

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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This quote is just one of 12 total Galileo Galilei quotes in our collection. Galileo Galilei is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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

Galileo Galilei

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Galileo Galilei

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Galileo Galilei