Doe Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

— Robert L. Park

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

— Jay Griffiths

The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“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

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

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Richard Whately

“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

“There was only one trial of Galileo, and yet it seems there were a thousand—the suppression of science by religion, the defense of individualism…

— Dava Sobel

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

— Anonymous

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

— Bill Condon

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his…

— Alfred North Whitehead