Here is a quoted excerpt of a letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler:  A picture of Johannes Kepler, a friend to Galileo.   |
"I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope." "Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position - eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still." -Galileo GalileiHere are some other quotes from Galileo Galilei: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei "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." - Galileo Galilei "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." -Galileo Galilei "Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe." -Galileo Galilei "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." -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 judgment upon anything new." -Galileo Galilei |
