Galileo Galilei Quotes

Time discovers truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

There is no better high than discovery.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts