Galileo and the Science Deniers Quotes

“Galileo established what has since become the modern approach to the study of all natural phenomena.”
― Mario Livio, Galileo: And the Science Deniers

“Galileo was hailed as a Columbus of the heavens. The Scottish librarian Thomas Segeth raved: “Columbus gave man lands to conquer by bloodshed, Galileo new worlds harmful to none. Which is better?”
― Mario Livio, Galileo: And the Science Deniers

“In a world of governmental antiscience attitudes with science deniers at key positions, unnecessary conflicts between science and religion, and the perception of a widening schism between the humanities and the sciences, Galileo’s tale serves, first of all, as a potent reminder of the importance of freedom of thought.”
― Mario Livio, Galileo: And the Science Deniers

“Galileo was right, and the Church in this case abused its disciplinary power. As Pope John Paul II admitted in 1992: “This led them [the theologians who condemned Galileo] unduly to transpose into the realm of the doctrine of the faith, a question which in fact pertained to scientific investigation.” Such acknowledgments, however, didn’t come for almost four centuries.”
― Mario Livio, Galileo: And the Science Deniers