Galileo Galilei- Inspiration from Brilliant Beings series

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​Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer. He has been called the “Father of Observational Astronomy” and also the “Father of Modern Science”.

Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall along with the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology. He invented the thermoscope and various military compasses. Galileo is probably most known as the person who first introduced the concept of Sun being at the center of our solar system. This also got him in trouble with the Roman Church, which until then were his greatest supporters.

He was tried by the Inquisition and found to be a heretic and forced to recant! He was put under house arrest for the rest of his life. It is during this time that he wrote his final book, Two New Sciences.

Galileo worked on what he believed to be correct against all opposition. This has left us some important scientific concepts. His life as expressed through some of her famous quotes can inspire us to face our challenges with courage and determination…    

Famous & Inspiring Quotes by Galileo Galilei

• ​“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.”
• “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

• “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

• “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”

• “Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”

• “Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”

• “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

• “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”

• “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

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