#galileo

It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#science #men

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

#galileo-galilei #men

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

#men

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #enlightenment #galileo #geocentricism #god

It helps nothing to cry and complain, to pluck our hair. There’s no difference between getting mad at our fate and getting mad at rocks and stones. The ears of Fate are completely deaf; anyway, it doesn’t matter whether she hears our voices or not; when the moment comes, she only speaks of the things she has already designed and rains the orders she has already planned. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#design

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

— Thomas Hardy

#alone #galileo #had #him #inquisition

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

#books #conceive #down #galileo #god

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth? ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#am #believing #between #centre #church