Book Quote by Carl Sagan

“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

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

— Stephen Hawking

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences…

— Paul Feyerabend

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance was that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“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

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Carafa, as Pope Paul IV, established the Index of Forbidden Books, banned all women from entering the Vatican, burnt volumes of Talmud and Kabbalah,…

— Benjamin Blech

“It is undoubtedly true that Galileo didn’t intend to challenge the very theological foundations of the Church of Rome by observing the Moon through…

— Brian Cox

“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the ethical…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“In 1616, a pope and a cardinal inquisitor reprimanded Galileo, warning him to curtail his forays into the supernal realms. The motions of the…

— Dava Sobel

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

— Richard Whately