By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land…

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Her teeth had the nice shiny look that comes from standing all night in a glass of solution.”

— Raymond Chandler

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke…

— John Milton

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams,…

— John Milton

“Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

— Brian Tracy

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

— Michael Coren

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking…

— John Shelby Spong

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system.…

— Christopher Hitchens

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human…

— Tim Maudlin

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a…

— David Hilbert

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

— Thomas Hardy

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin