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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

I'm Galileo in prison. I'm a supercomputer in a junkyard. I'm being wasted, Irene. This town is killing me by inches, turning my mind to mush. — Eva Morgan

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

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured. — Galileo Galilei

...unmystical, hard-headed, argumentative, and possessed of a powerful personality that did not take easily to being contradicted. [Galileo] — Allan Chapman

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

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. — Galileo Galilei

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

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man. — Galileo Galilei

I've loved the stars to fondly to be fearful of the night. — Galileo

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them. — Galileo Galilei

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. — Galileo Galilei

Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs. — Galileo Galilei

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But — Steven Weinberg

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. — Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness. — Galileo Galilei

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside. — Galileo Galilei

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it. — Philippe Kahn

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. — Galileo Galilei

Nature ... does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few. — Galileo Galilei

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. — Galileo Galilei

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. — Galileo Galilei

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. — Ted Cruz

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences. — Galileo Galilei

And yet it moves. — Galileo Galilei

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word. — Galileo Galilei

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Nature's great book is written in mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known? — Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe — Galileo Galilei

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things. — Galileo Galilei

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. — Galileo Galilei

If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon. — Galileo Galilei

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses. — Galileo Galilei

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. — Galileo Galilei

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it. — Steven Pinker

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves. — Galileo Galilei

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

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. — Galileo Galilei

Holy Scripture could never lie or err ... its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. — Galileo Galilei

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them. — Galileo Galilei

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him. — Sylvia Browne

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. — Galileo Galilei

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. — Galileo Galilei

Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. — Frederick Lenz

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel. — Galileo Galilei

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers. — Galileo Galilei

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

Nature is written in mathematical language. — Galileo Galilei

We're better than Galileo. Because he's dead. — Jenny Lawson

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. — Galileo Galilei

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. — Galileo Galilei

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. — Galileo Galilei

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei

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

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss

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

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field. — Galileo Galilei

One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. — Pope Pius XII

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again. — Galileo Galilei

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

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. — Stephen Jay Gould

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom. — Galileo Galilei

See now the power of truth. — Galileo Galilei

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

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly. — Galileo Galilei

The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself. — Galileo Galilei

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

You and Galileo," I said.
"Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said. — Robert B. Parker

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

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still. — Phil Spector

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. — Galileo Galilei

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

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards. — Galileo Galilei

I've grown to fond of the stars to be fearful of the night. — Galileo

By night the Glass
Of Galileo ... observes
Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon. — John Milton

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei

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

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

Passion is the genesis of genius. — Galileo Galilei

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations. — Galileo Galilei

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. — Albert Einstein

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

The greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei