Galileo Quote by Jay Griffiths

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

— Kyle Hill

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are…

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

— Pope Pius XII

“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

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

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

— Richard Whately

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

— Thomas Hardy

[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

“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