Galileo (1564 – 1642), Italian astronomer & physicist
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.
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.
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
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.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
