Galileo Quotes

64 Galileo quotes by 58 unique authors

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
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder… — Morris Kline
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible. — Michael Coren
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down… — John Shelby Spong
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to… — David Brin
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved… — Henrik Ibsen
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed… — Mark Twain

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