A Quote by Jay Griffiths

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

Jay Griffiths

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Jay Griffiths
British - Author
Born: 1965

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

Ted Cruz

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

Paul Feyerabend

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

Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

Ted Cruz

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

Ellis Peters

It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

Victor Hugo

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

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Albert Camus

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

Antony Jay

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve.