Believe Quote by Stephen Vizinczey

“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

At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s…

— Dan Brown

“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with…

— Werner Heisenberg

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

Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that,…

— Seth Shostak

The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of…

— Paul Feyerabend

“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

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific…

— William Lyons

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

“And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen heavens, in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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