1960s Quote by Stewart Brand

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

— Kyle Hill

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Albert Einstein

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

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

— Pope Pius XII

“Galileo’s genius resided not in his ability to understand the universe, but in his capacity to surrender that need to know so he could…

— David B. Agus

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

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes…

— Arthur Koestler

“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

“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

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein

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

— Richard Whately