Bacon Quote by Jack McDevitt

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

— Stephen Hawking

“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

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“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

“THE DANGEROUS VICE OF ASKING Which is worth more? Experience or doctrine? By dropping stones and pebbles, big balls and little balls, Galileo Galilei…

— Eduardo Galeano

“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

“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that quantitative physical…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Kyle Hill

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the…

— Ben Hecht

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a…

— Galileo Galilei