Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. G
  4. Galileo Galilei
  5. Understanding

Galileo Galilei Quotes about Understanding

All Galileo Galilei Quotes Astronomy Atheism Earth Education Giving Heaven Inspirational Language Math Mathematics Moon Nature Observation Philosophy Religion Science Scripture Study Truth Understanding quotes
But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

But let us remember that we are dealing with infinities and indivisibles both of which transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.

Galileo Galilei
Understanding, Infinity, Imagine
"On the loadstone and magnetic bodies".

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

Galileo Galilei
Science, Perfect, Understanding
Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.101, Univ of California Press

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

Galileo Galilei
Men, Order, Understanding

You May Also Like: