First sight Quote by Brian Cox

“[The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department…

— Lisa Randall

The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could…

— Michael Coren

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

“I knew of no sadder picture in the history of science than that of the old man, Galileo, worn by a long life of…

— Maria Mitchell

“In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.”

— Stephen Hawking

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

— Richard Whately

Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right.

— Kyle Hill

“There was only one trial of Galileo, and yet it seems there were a thousand—the suppression of science by religion, the defense of individualism…

— Dava Sobel

“Galileo’s genius resided not in his ability to understand the universe, but in his capacity to surrender that need to know so he could…

— David B. Agus

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science…

— Pope Pius XI

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein