Anthropocentrism Quote by Christopher Hitchens

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

— Maurice Strong

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to…

— Alexandre Koyre

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

— Kyle Hill

Consequently, after the fall of Greece, the pursuit of education philosophy and science almost ceased to exist. Humanity suddenly shunned the wonderful writings bequeathed…

— Johnny Luckett

When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words…

— William J. Clinton

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

— Stephen Hawking

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

— Jay Griffiths

“Career" Galileo, the clergy maintained, was a pernicious and stubborn man. But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“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