Heretic Quote by Jay Griffiths Download Open image “Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.” — Jay Griffiths ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heretic
Galileos still exist in science. Sometimes a lone proponent of a new idea turns out to be right. — Kyle Hill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud. — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
“My brothers and I spent weeks with our grandparents by the sea where we learned so much more than it may have seemed. Not… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received -… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come?… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
