In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged…

“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

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

— Thomas Hardy

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

“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

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

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

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

“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

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

— Claude Levi-Strauss

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

— Brian Tracy

How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

“Galileo got into trouble because he maintained that since the new discoveries seemed to contradict scripture, those passages of scripture should be reinterpreted in…

— Michael Coren

“You and Galileo,” I said. “Didn’t he throw his balls off the leaning tower?” Quirk Said.”

— Robert B. Parker

“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson