Galileo Galilei Quotes

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

To be absolutely nothing is to be beyond measure.

The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

All known existence points beyond itself.

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.

Every relationship of man to the infinite is religion, namely of a man in the full abundance of his humanity. Whenever a mathematician calculates infinity, that, to be sure, is not religion. Infinity conceived in this abundance is the Godhead.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.

Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.