Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo. — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“GALILEO is right. You are doomed. It's already begun. There's really no reason to keep talking to you. Good-bye.” — C. Robert Cargill Copy Share Image
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
“In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.” — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I, Galileo, son of the late Vicenzo Galilei, swear that I never said that the prime numbers are useless. What I said… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. In 1610, Galileo observed sunspots on its surface, proving that the Sun was rotating… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And you can bet that Galileo, Newton, and Einstein never would have made their discoveries if they hadn’t first been able to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“E pur si muove." (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“A foot note in Scale, Geoffery West: The full quotation from Einstein is worth repeating because it emphasizes a central dictum of… — Einstein Albert 1879-1955 Copy Share Image
(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch… — William James Copy Share Image
“[The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition… — John Fuegi Copy Share Image
“However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When Galileo made his astonishing discovery of mountains on the moon, his telescope didn’t actually have enough magnifying power to support that… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“I linger near Galileo’s telescopes, then round the corner and stand transfixed: I did not expect this- a dark, cool room full… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
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