Galileo Galilei Quotes About Scripture

• Me molesta cuando quieren obligar a la ciencia por la autoridad de las Escrituras y, sin embargo, no se consideran obligados a responder a la razón y al experimento.

  Galileo Galilei

  Answers, Vex, Scripture

• Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

  Galileo Galilei

  Bible, Lying, Scripture

• [Copernicus] 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Doctrine, Copernicus, Scripture

• I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Thinking, Scripture

  "Pale Blue Dot". Book by Carl Sagan (p. 43), 1994.

• 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.

  Galileo Galilei

  Errors, Should Have, Would Be

  Letter to Benedetto Castelli, 1613.

• The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.

  Galileo Galilei

  Fall, Would Be, Scandal

• Me inclino a pensar que la autoridad de la Sagrada Escritura tiene por objeto convencer a los hombres de aquellas verdades que son necesarias para su salvación, las cuales, estando muy por encima del entendimiento del hombre, no pueden hacerse creíbles por ningún saber, ni por ningún otro medio que no sea la revelación por el Espíritu Santo.

  Galileo Galilei

  Media, Hombres, Pensar

• Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Heaven, Going To Heaven

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