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„Ich habe noch nie einen Mann getroffen, der so ignorant war, dass ich nichts von ihm lernen konnte.“

Galileo Galilei

„Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!“

Galileo Galilei

„Die Philosophie steht in diesem großen Buch geschrieben, das unserem Blick ständig offen liegt [, ich meine das Universum]. Aber das Buch ist nicht zu verstehen, wenn man nicht zuvor die Sprache erlernt und sich mit den Buchstaben vertraut gemacht hat, in denen es geschrieben ist. Es ist in der Sprache der Mathematik geschrieben, und deren Buchstaben sind Kreise, Dreiecke und andere geometrische Figuren, ohne die es dem Menschen unmöglich ist, ein einziges Bild davon zu verstehen; ohne diese irrt man in einem dunklen Labyrinth herum.“

Galileo Galilei

Aus dem "Saggiatore" von 1623, zitiert in Ehrhard Behrends: Ist Mathematik die Sprache der Natur? Mitt. Math. Ges. Hamburg 29 (2010), 53–70 http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/bhrnds/publ_papers/sprachedernatur_hamburg.pdf
Original italienisch: "La filosofia è scritta in questo grandissimo libro che continuamente ci sta aperto innanzi a gli occhi (io dico l'universo), ma non si può intendere se prima non s'impara a intender la lingua, e conoscer i caratteri, ne' quali è scritto. Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezi è impossibile a intenderne umanamente parola; senza questi è un aggirarsi vanamente per un oscuro laberinto." - Il Saggiatore Capitolo VI http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Saggiatore/6#La_filosofia

„Die Neugier steht immer an erster Stelle eines Problems, das gelöst werden will.“

Galileo Galilei

„Man muß messen, was messbar ist, und messbar machen, was noch nicht meßbar ist.“

Galileo Galilei

Dies gilt zwar als treffende Charakterisierung von Galileis neuartiger Vorgehensweise, aber in seinen Schriften gibt es keinen Beleg. Die früheste Nennung ist von Thomas Henri Martin 1868, mit einem kürzeren Vorläufer von Antoine-Augustin Cournot 1847. Dies wurde von Wilhelm Dilthey und Hermann Weyl aufgegriffen und verbreitet.
Beleg: Andreas Kleinert : Der messende Luchs, Zwei verbreitete Fehler in der Galilei-Literatur, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin Bd. 17 (2009) 199–206, DOI 10.1007/s00048-009-0335-4 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00048-009-0335-4#/page-1
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„Und sie dreht sich doch!“

Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei Zitate und Sprüche

„Und sie bewegt sich doch!" bzw. "Und sie dreht sich doch!“

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„Auf die Titelseite meiner gesammelten Werke zu setzen: Hier wird es aus unzähligen Beispielen zu begreifen sein, was der Nutzen der Mathematik für das Urteil der Naturwissenschaften ist, und wie unmöglich es ist, korrekt zu philosophieren ohne die Führung der Geometrie, wie es der weise Grundsatz Platons besagt.“

Galileo Galilei

zitiert nach Hans Joachim Störig, Kleine Weltgeschichte der Wissenschaft, Band 1, Seite 267, Fischer Handbuch Nr. 6032, 1970
(Original italienisch: "Da porsi nel titolo del libro di tutte le opere: Di qui si comprenderà in infiniti esempli qual sia l'utilità delle matematiche in concludere circa alle proposizioni naturali, e quanto sia impossibile il poter ben filosofare senza la scorta della geometria, conforme al vero pronunciato di Platone." - Le Opere di Galileo Galilei. Prima editione completa, tomo XIV. Firenze 1855. p. 318 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=o_fzO87sdqkC&pg=PA318

Mathematik

„Da es ganz klar ist, daß zwei Wahrheiten sich niemals widersprechen können, so ist es die Aufgabe der weisen Ausleger, sich zu bemühen, den wahren Sinn der Bibelstellen, der mit den Naturgesetzen übereinstimmt, zu finden.“

Galileo Galilei

Brief an Benedetto Castelli, 21. Dezember 1613. In: Galileo Galilei - Ein geschichtlicher Roman von Mathilde Raven. F.A. Brockhaus Leipzig 1860. S. 195 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=U587AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA195
Original italienisch: "Stante questo, ed essendo di più manifesto che due verità non posson mai contrariarsi, è ofizio de' saggi espositori affaticarsi per trovare i veri sensi de' luoghi sacri, concordanti con quelle conclusioni naturali delle quali prima il senso manifesto o le dimostrazioni necessarie ci avesser resi certi e sicuri." - A Benedetto Castelli in Pisa 21 dicembre 1613. astrofilitrentini.it http://www.astrofilitrentini.it/mat/testi/galileo/11.html

Über Gesetze , Sinn

„Die Natur ist unerbittlich und unveränderlich, und es ist ihr gleichgültig, ob die verborgenen Gründe und Arten ihres Handelns dem Menschen verständlich sind oder nicht.“

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Über Menschen , Über natur

Galileo Galilei: Zitate auf Englisch

“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.”

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Galileo Galilei Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)

“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.”

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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.”

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Galileo Galilei buch Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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

“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.”

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Galileo Galilei buch 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)
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).
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.”

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Galileo Galilei

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
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“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.”

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Galileo Galilei

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
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“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.”

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Galileo Galilei

"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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“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.”

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Galileo Galilei buch Sidereus Nuncius

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