Galileo Quotes
- 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. He… — Christopher Hitchens
- My life had taken a stranger turn than I could've ever imagined. What was I doing on this path? Where was I headed really? Who… — Kami Garcia
- E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits… — Galileo Galilei
- There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes… — Kevin Hearne
- To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther.… — Pascal Mercier
- At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet… — Gustave Le Bon
- The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the… — Carl Sagan
- Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least,… — Srikumar Rao
- One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of… — Marie Rutkoski
- Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed to… — Johnny Luckett
- In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a… — Alan Turing
- I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in… — Abraham Maslow
- Comparing oneself with Galileo or Einstein is certainly good for the ego, provided one refrains from going into too much detail. — John McCarthy