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Galileo Galilei Quotes

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“See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.”
— Galileo Galilei
Tagged: Truth, Science, Scientific Method
“The speed of the ball—thanks to opposition from the air—will not go on increasing forever. Rather, what will happen is seen in bodies of very little weight falling through no great distance; I mean, a reduction to equable motion, which will occur also in a lead or iron ball after the descent of some thousands of braccia. This bounded terminal speed will be called the maximum that such a heavy body can naturally attain through the air...”
— Galileo Galilei, Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences
Tagged: physics, Falling Bodies
“My purpose is to set forth a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject. There is, in nature, perhaps nothing older than motion, concerning which the books written by philosophers are neither few nor small; nevertheless I have discovered by experiment some properties of it which are worth knowing and which have not hitherto been either observed or demonstrated. Some superficial observations have been made, as, for instance, that the free motion [naturalem motum] of a heavy falling body is continuously accelerated; but to just what extent this acceleration occurs has not yet been announced; for so far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distances traversed, during equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd numbers beginning with unity.”
— Galileo Galilei
Tagged: Falling Bodies, physics, Philosophers
“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”
— Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Tagged: Astronomy, Night, Earth, Moon
“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”
— Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
Tagged: inventions, Talent
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