Quotes About Galileo

It is said that Galileo demonstrated that Aristotle's belief was false by dropping weights from the leaning tower of Pisa. The story is almost certainly untrue, but Galileo did do something equivalent: he rolled balls of different weights down a smooth slope.

The Church had, after all, survived Galileo, Luther, and Darwin. Even Dan Brown.

Jupiter's moons are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist. -contemporaries of Galileo Galilei, circa 1610

EARTH ROTATES AROUND SUN (1514)

PLANETARY MAGNETISM (1600)

JUPITER'S MOONS (1610)

LAW OF FALLING BODIES (1634)

It is through Galileo that the connection between math and the physical world became solidified.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space craft which was in orbit around Jupiter until 2003.

The idea was to measure everything and "make measurable" that which could not clearly be measured, to quote Galileo. That testable world was then subject to observation, hypotheses, and repeated experiments, forming what we now call the scientific method. And that method, we now know, can be applied to any study of nature, including the human body and its diseases.

Should I explain to him Galileo's discovery that we are not what we thought—that our lives are made smaller by the unimportance of our dwelling place on the periphery, like a touch of color at the edge of a painting, contributing to the whole but unnoticed by most?

La abjuración obligada de Galileo es una prueba de que el disimulo era la única salida.

La condena de Galileo es emblemática de la posición anticientífica de las religiones. Más tarde, en cambio, los protestantes adoptaron una actitud positiva frente a la ciencia, así la teoría de Isaac Newton fue reconocida por la Inglaterra y la Alemania protestantes, en tanto Roma la rechazó como herejía protestante. Esa actitud divergente marcó la separación drástica entre el progreso científico de las sociedades protestantes y el atraso de las católicas.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, Doubt (called "the father of inventions" by Galileo), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical. Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind. Even in the time of Newton and Galileo, men knew more about the moon and other heavenly bodies than they did about their own.

It was to equally little purpose that you obtained against Galileo a decree from Rome condemning his opinion respecting the motion of the earth. It will never be proved by such an argument as this that the earth remains stationary; and if it can be demonstrated by sure observation that it is the earth and not the sun that revolves, the efforts and arguments of all mankind put together will not hinder our planet from revolving, nor hinder themselves from revolving along with her.

I am very distressed, as I assume you are, over the Oppenheimer matter. I feel that it is somewhat like inquiring into the security risk of a Newton or a Galileo.

Harvard gave him a volume of Galileo's early writings. He was assigned

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

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

But it does move!

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.