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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

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

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

Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

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

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

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?

The undevout astronomer must be mad.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.

I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.