Exist Quote by Kyle Hill

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

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

— Jay Griffiths

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

— Pope Pius XII

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

— Stewart Brand

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

— Richard Whately

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

— Albert Einstein

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 had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law…

— Albert Einstein

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

“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

“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