187 Quotes by Galileo Galilei

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Doubt is the father of invention.

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

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

What was observed by us in the third place is the nature or matter of the Milky Way itself, which, with the aid of the spyglass, may be observed so well that all the disputes that for so many generations have vexed philosophers are destroyed by visible certainty, and we are liberated from wordy arguments.

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

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