Galileusz cytaty strona 3

„Nie możesz człowieka nauczyć niczego. Możesz mu tylko pomóc odnaleźć to w sobie.”

„Natura jest napisana w języku matematycznym.”

„Matematyka jest alfabetem, za pomocą którego Bóg opisał wszechświat.”

„W żadnej z moich prac nikt nie może znaleźć nawet cienia czegoś, co uwłaczałoby czci i szacunkowi Świętego Kościoła.”

Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.

„(…) znajduję niewyczerpane pocieszenie w tym, iż (…) najkrytyczniejszemu nawet czytelnikowi moich pism nie uda się znaleźć w nich czegoś, co mogłoby rzucić cień na dobre imię Kościoła świętego.”

In tutte le opere mie, non sarà chi trovar possa pur minima ombra di cosa che declini dalla pietà e dalla riverenza di Santa Chiesa. (wł.)
Źródło: Vittorio Messori, Czarne karty Kościoła, przeł. ks. Antoni Kajzerek, Księgarnia św. Jacka, Katowice 1998, s. 120.

Galileusz cytaty

„Nagromadzenie danych to nie jest jeszcze nauka.”

Źródło: Sławomir Zatwardnicki, Katolicki pomocnik towarzyski. Czyli jak pojedynkować się z ateistą, Fronda, 2012, s. 188.

„Może z czasem zobaczymy rzeczy, których jak dotąd, nie możemy sobie wyobrazić.”

„Zanim przemówisz, obróć siedem razy język w gębie.”

„Zagłębianie się w zagadnienia budowy świata jest jednym z największych i najszlachetniejszych celów człowieka.”

„Wino to światło słońca uwięzione w wodzie.”

„Mam w najwyższej czci Pismo Święte, świętych teologów i sobory, a ich autorytet uważam za największy.”

„Filozofia zawarta jest w tej wielkiej księdze, którą mamy przed oczami – mam na myśli wszechświat – ale nie uda się nam jej zrozumieć, dopóki nie poznamy właściwego języka i symboli, jakimi ją napisano.”

Źródło: Sławomir Zatwardnicki, Katolicki pomocnik towarzyski. Czyli jak pojedynkować się z ateistą, Fronda, 2012, s. 187, 188.

„A jednak się kręci.”

Galileusz Eppur si muove

Eppur si muove (wł.)
według legendy słowa wypowiedziane szeptem przez Galileusza w 1633, gdy stanął przed sądem inkwizycji rzymskiej.
Źródło: Giuseppe Baretti, Italian Library, "Querelles Littéraires" (1761)

„Księga natury pisana jest w matematycznym języku.”

„Nie czuję się zobowiązany do wiary, że ten sam Bóg, który obdarzył nas zmysłem, rozumem i intelektem, chciał abyśmy zapomnieli ich użycia i innymi środkami chciał dać nam wiedzę, którą możemy zdobyć poprzez nie.”

„Opis: według wspomnień jego córki, ostatnie słowo wypowiedziane przed śmiercią.”

Źródło: List do Wielkiej Księżnej Krystyny (1615), objaśniający stosunek między nauką a objawieniem

“Copernicus never discusses matters of religion or faith, nor does he use argument that depend in any way upon the authority of sacred writings which he might have interpreted erroneously. … He did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.”

Jezus.
Źródło: Sławomir Zatwardnicki, Katolicki pomocnik towarzyski. Czyli jak pojedynkować się z ateistą, Fronda, 2012, s. 187.

Galileusz: Cytaty po angielsku

“To this end they make a shield of their hypocritical zeal for religion. They go about invoking the Bible, which they would have minister to their deceitful purposes. Contrary to the sense of the Bible and the intention of the holy Fathers, if I am not mistaken, they would extend such authorities until even in purely physical matters — where faith is not involved — they would have us altogether abandon reason and the evidence of our senses in favor of some biblical passage, though under the surface meaning of its words this passage may contain a different sense.”

Galileo Galilei Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)

“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 Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)

“Of such are the mathematical sciences alone; that is, geometry and arithmetic, in which the Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions, since it knows all. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.”

Galileo Galilei książka Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Salviati, p. 88
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.”

Galileo Galilei książka Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

In the 1661 translation by Thomas Salusbury: … such are the pure Mathematical sciences, to wit, Geometry and Arithmetick: in which Divine Wisdom knows infinite more propositions, because it knows them all; but I believe that the knowledge of those few comprehended by humane understanding, equalleth the divine, as to the certainty objectivè, for that it arriveth to comprehend the necessity thereof, than which there can be no greater certainty." p. 92 (from the Archimedes Project http://archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/cgi-bin/toc/toc.cgi?page=92;dir=galil_syste_065_en_1661;step=textonly) <br class="br">In the original Italian: … tali sono le scienze matematiche pure, cioè la geometria e l’aritmetica, delle quali l’intelletto divino ne sa bene infinite proposizioni di piú, perché le sa tutte, ma di quelle poche intese dall’intelletto umano credo che la cognizione agguagli la divina nella certezza obiettiva, poiché arriva a comprenderne la necessità, sopra la quale non par che possa esser sicurezza maggiore." (from the copy at the Italian Wikisource). <br class="br">Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

“Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.”

Letter to Élie Diodati (2 January 1638), as translated in The Private Life of Galileo : Compiled primarily from his correspondence and that of his eldest daughter, Sister Maria Celeste (1870) by Mary Allan-Olney, p. 279
Other quotes

“What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.”

Notes in a copy of Jean-Baptiste Morin's "Famous and ancient problems of the earth's motion or rest, yet to be solved" (published 1631), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1976) by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167
Other quotes

“It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.”

"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
Other quotes

“Salvio. A book which, indeed, is not to be placed second to any produced by the most eminent geometers either of the present or of the past; a book which, as soon as it fell into the hands of our Academician, led him to abandon his own researches along these lines; for he saw how happily everything had been treated and demonstrated by Valerio.”

Galileo Galilei książka Sidereus Nuncius

Sidereus Nuncius (Venice, 1609), Letter to Benedetto Castelli http://www.heritage-history.com/www/heritage.php?Dirbooks&MenuItemdisplay&authorgibson&bookscientists&storyletter (1613)

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.”

Źródło: Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638), P. 148