"A light was kindled amongst the investigators of nature when Galilei let balls of a definite weight roll down the inc…"

"Galileo deduced the laws of freely falling bodies and the parabolic paths of projectiles, initiating an era of applic…"

"It has always hurt me to think that Galilei did not acknowledge the work of Kepler … That, alas, is vanity … You find…"

"The beginning of astronomy, except observations, I think is not to be derived from farther time than from Nicolaus Co…"

"Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo were ‘revisionists’ in rejecting the geocentric system of Ptolemy (which held sway for…"

"Galileo's program offers us a dead world: Out go sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell, and along with them have sinc…"

"It is to the Italian astronomer, forced in old age by the Inquisition to turn aside from the more dangerous study of …"

"Conclusions obtained by purely rational processes are, so far as Reality is concerned, entirely empty. It was because…"

"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom — that may be necessary in religion…"

"The first mathematician to consider the nature of the resistance of solids to rupture was Galileo. Although he treate…"