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.
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Related He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. GROUCHO MARX I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time. SALLY KELLERMAN I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... BRANDON SANDERSON I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot. RICK RIORDAN Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. DAVID BAILEY I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet. "You're lik... BRANDON SANDERSON Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're ... MELINA MARCHETTA It's the most ridiculous thing that only an idiot could believe. He didn't have a death wish. He had... PHILIP RUSSELL In order to understand early modern natural philosophy, it is necessary to break free of several com... LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot. SARAH MAYBERRY 'Perhaps what Finneas needs, King Rowan, is an occupation. I believe there to be a village nearby i... SARA BELL No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men h... LYSANDER SPOONER I'm an idiot anyway, but sometimes you feel like an idiot times ten when you're stoned. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi... OSAMU DAZAI An individual school can handle a resident idiot from time to time, but an entire school system is o... TUCKER ELLIOT Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on. MARKUS ZUSAK If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot. JULIA QUINN And she was an idiot. Very nosy, but no brains, none at all. It’s not a good combination, J.K. ROWLING Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. UNKNOWN I was afraid that I was going to be a blubbering idiot, but so far I'm good. DUFF GIBSON There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has ... WILLIAM HAZLITT Quantum phenomena do not occur in a ASHER PERES He is the kind of a man that you could use as a blueprint to build an idiot JUSTINE VOGT We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-cul... CARL BERNSTEIN Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot. UNKNOWN There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words. CHRISTINA ENGELA To generalize is to be an idiot. WILLIAM BLAKE Is being an idiot like being high all the time? JANEANE GAROFALO Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie... DEYTH BANGER Never argue with an idiot, because people watching may not know the difference. DAVID J. HENDERHAN It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popular... SUSAN HOWATCH Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in thi... WILLIAM FAULKNER I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you... STEVE MARTIN What an idiot. J.K. ROWLING Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy h... RICKY GERVAIS I’m going to look like an idiot to everyone I ever knew -
or everyone I ever knew is going to real... ROSS ELDER Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man ... KARL MARX The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religiou... FULTON J. SHEEN Before we set out to do good, it is necessary to consider if it will result in evil. It is equally n... OSHO Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id... CHARLIE CHAPLIN Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience... GEORGE CARLIN I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling ... BEN KINGSLEY Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretar... HUGO CHAVEZ You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.' NATALIE DORMER Don King isn't an idiot, he wouldn't be coming here if his boy had no chance, FRANK WARREN We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita... MARIE CURIE We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospita... MARIE CURIE The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. LORD KELVIN It isn't against the Law to be an idiot. CASSANDRA CLARE I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. JOHN MAYER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that... So, what next!?... DEYTH BANGER It's kids & idiots who dare say that the emperor is naked. But: Emperor stays emperor. Idiot sta... IVOR PLECAS We may not have soul mates in this life, but most of us have my-God-if-I-don't-walk-through-the-rest... TSH OXENREIDER Law is an ass, an idiot. CHARLES DICKENS The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot ANDRE BRETON Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no ... JIMMY FALLON Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth m... DR. WILLIAM H. MASTERS There's only one way we're going to change our political climate and ensure we establish som... MARK MCKINNON I'm an idiot. KATE MARA I felt like an idiot, ELIZABETH MAY At this time in history, there is a lot of emphasis on religion and science. There is also a growing... GREG FIELDS There is no question that [Dan] Quayle is an uneducated idiot. But someone, somewhere cleverly reali... TIM ROBBINS You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise. CASSANDRA CLARE In the past, Flaubert implied, idiots had had no clue as to what the carbon structure of diamonds wa... ALAIN DE BOTTON I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up ther... WILLIAM HUNG So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of wha... AARON BROUSSARD Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being ca... MELINA MARCHETTA Politics works on the principle that an idiot who knows idiots is an intelligent! THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to r... PETER LYNCH By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove... BEN MITCHELL A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot. MILOS ZEMAN You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot. MATT FORBECK They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest r... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs i... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH She is an incredibly intelligent idiot GILLIAN FLYNN There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's f... DAVID BRENT "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a
idiot." CHARLES DICKENS When I'd tell people that I wanted $150 they almost fainted. They thought I was an upstart and an eg... GALE GORDON The Ancients had no religion, but instead had what could be described as a deeper knowledge of reali... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylight... DIANA GABALDON Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand tria... AARON BROUSSARD I saved you,” Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be ... ALEX GABRIEL I'm a fucking idiot. No, he was a man in love with a woman who meant the entire universe... SHERRILYN KENYON I was pretty much a dork growing up. Going up in front of a crowd and being an idiot was a relief wh... BEN FOLDS I am an idiot. I am a complete and utter idiot. I got it wrong completely. The guy knows what he is ... TONY KORNHEISER She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooli... JOHN FLANAGAN I'm a f*****g idiot. GREEN DAY Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in th... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of mart... EMILE BOUGAUD Don’t wait for respect, just act like an idiot and everyone will respect you. VIKRANT PARSAI I whispered in his ear, 'I'm the guy for this part. And if you can't see that, you're an idiot,' STEPHEN BALDWIN Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think. ANTHONY JOSHUA Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt t... CHRISTOPHER BOND The 100% American is 99% an idiot. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'm an idiot for not doing it, TOM FITZGERALD
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