Galileo Quotes

64 Galileo quotes by 58 unique authors

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the past.… — Alan Turing
Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell. — Rick Perry
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific… — David Hilbert
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. — Pope Pius XII
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the… — Stephen Vizinczey
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right. — Robert L. Park
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison… — David Bentley Hart
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the… — Junichiro Koizumi
The unseen energy that was once in Shakespeare or Picasso or Galileo or any human form, is also available to all of us. That is… — Wayne Dyer
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge… — George Bernard Shaw
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough… — Hermann Weyl
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You… — Albert Einstein
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun… — Phil Spector
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. — Frederick Lenz
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo. — Jay Griffiths

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