Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo Quotes

“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

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”
― Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”
― Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo