Inquisition Quote by Thomas Hardy

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, 'Still,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

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

— Richard Whately

“...the workings of the Inquisition did not fundamentally change over its six-hundred-year history. The Inquisition was a machine with interchangeable parts, just as its…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

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

— Jay Griffiths

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...”

— Jonathan Kirsch

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for…

— Laurence Sterne

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

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges…

— Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

“In 1616, a pope and a cardinal inquisitor reprimanded Galileo, warning him to curtail his forays into the supernal realms. The motions of the…

— Dava Sobel