Birth Quote by Stephen Hawking

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Kyle Hill

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

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

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

“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's carrying the…

— Jack McDevitt

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

“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

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

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart