Christianity Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences…

— Paul Feyerabend

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

“Galileo got into trouble because he maintained that since the new discoveries seemed to contradict scripture, those passages of scripture should be reinterpreted in…

— Michael Coren

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

“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

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

— Jay Griffiths

“In the West, the great problem that was created for Christianity from the 17th century onward and even earlier during the Renaissance was that…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

— 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

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“In 1992 the Roman Catholic Church finally acknowledged that it had been wrong to condemn Galileo.”

— Stephen Hawking

It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the…

— Carl Sagan