Galileo Galilei Quotes

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Galileo Galilei
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Scientist
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15 February, 1564
DeathDate
08 January, 1642
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Italy
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