A list created by: Lee Sonogan

The reference in Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody mentioning Galileo in the lyrics is of the man known as Galileo Galilei. Born in the year 1564, Galileo was an Italian physicist, engineer and an astronomer. Regarded highly worldwide, many have called many names such as the Father of modern science and physics and the Father of scientific method and observational astronomy. He was described as a Polymath being known for his work creating kinematics, dynamic theory. The advancement of telescopic observational astronomy and so much more to describe in detail.

1. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei
2. “Passion is the genesis of genius.” – Galileo Galilei
3. “In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.” – Galileo Galilei
4. “Wine is sunlight, held together by water.” – Galileo Galilei
5. “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.” – Galileo Galilei
6. “You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.” – Galileo Galilei
7. “Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.” – Galileo Galilei
8. “Two truths cannot contradict one another.” – Galileo Galilei
9. “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
10. “In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.” – Galileo Galilei
11. “Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.” – Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
12. “By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.” – Galileo Galilei
13. “With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.” – Galileo Galilei
14. “There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.” – Galileo Galilei
15. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” – Galileo Galilei
16. “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei
17. “If the Earth were not subject to any change I would consider the Earth a big but useless body in universe, paralyzed…superfluous and unnatural.Those who so exalt incorruptibility, unchangeability and the like, are, I think, reduced to saying such things both because of inordinate desire they have to live for a long time and because of the terror they have of death…they do not realize that if men were immortal, they would have never come into the world.” – Galileo Galilei
18. “Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written. This book is written in the mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.” – Galileo Galilei
19. “To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms ‘large,’ ‘small,’ ‘immense,’ ‘minute,’ etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time ‘immense’ and at another ‘imperceptible.” – Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
20. “The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.” – Galileo Galilei
21. “Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.” – Galileo Galilei
22. “We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” – Galileo Galilei
23. “(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.” – Galileo Galilei
24. “There is not a single effect in Nature, not even the least that exists, such that the most ingenious theorists can ever arrive at a complete understanding of it. This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is attained, would recognise that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.” – Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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