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Galileo and Kepler had "dangerous thoughts" (as they are called in Japan), and so have the most intelligent men of our own day.
— Bertrand Russell
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
— John Shelby Spong
To go to the wine house and not to get drunk is as difficult as to dive into a pool and not get wet!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
— Richard Whately
Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
— Dale Carnegie
The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo]
— Allan Chapman
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
— Ken Livingstone
A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But
— Steven Weinberg
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
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.
— Frederick Lenz
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
— Bertrand Russell
Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
— Stephen Hawking
We're better than Galileo. Because he's dead.
— Jenny Lawson
If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a 'jar of mistakes', dear Giulia; as we have made a mistake, we are human; this proves it!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Oh my son, so poor in doing the right things, so rich in doing the wrong things! What great poverty it is to be so rich!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Galileo , perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
— Stephen Hawking
Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.
— Michael Coren
Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
— Albert Einstein
We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.
— Leon M. Lederman
You and Galileo," I said."Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said. — Robert B. Parker
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just because you have a group of scientists who stood up and said here is the fact. Galileo got outvoted for a spell.
— Rick Perry
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.
— Pope Pius XII