Believe Quote by David Hilbert

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

— Kyle Hill

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Richard Whately

“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

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

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

— Jay Griffiths

“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

“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

“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

The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could…

— Michael Coren

“Actually, what we really need to remember about Galileo is that most of the people who use his name in argument could barely spell…

— Michael Coren

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his…

— Alfred North Whitehead