The scientist who shocked the Catholic Church in the seventeenth century by claiming that the sun was the center of the solar system said: “In scientific matters, the power of a thousand is not equal to the humble thinking of one.”
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) was an astronomer and physicist in Renaissance Italy. Pelletini painted this ancient plaque, engraved after a portrait of Pasagianni in Florence. A biography of Galileo was published in 1863, and is now in the public domain. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
The inventor of the telescope as we know it today and the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei A multi-talented person (a person whose knowledge transcends one field) was essential to the scientific revolution between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Through his studies in the fields of mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, and more, Galilei has been widely judged for violating the religious principles of the time. For claiming that the sun was the center of the solar system and not the earth, he was persecuted by the Catholic Church.
In 1632, he wrote A Dialogue Concerning Two Principal World Systems, which angered the Jesuits with views that seemed to be an attack on the Pope at the time. He ended up being investigated by the Roman Inquisition and was under house arrest until his death at the age of 77, in 1642.
Although controversial, Galilei never fails to express his views on religionOh Universe it’s at Science. Watch some of his most striking phrases:
- “I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn anything from him.”
- “I do not have to believe that the same God who endowed us with common sense, reason, and intellect intended us to renounce its use.”
- “In matters of science, the power of a thousand is not equal to the humble thinking of a single individual.”
- “Philosophy is written in this great book (I mean” the universe “), which is constantly open before our eyes, but it cannot be understood without first learning to understand the language in which it was written. It is written in the language of mathematics and its figures are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible Understand a word. Without it, one wanders into a dark labyrinth.”
- “You can’t teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
- “All facts are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
- “There are those who think well, but they are far outnumbered by those who think badly.”
- Mathematics is the language in which God wrote the universe.
- “Passion is the genesis of genius.”
- “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a handful of grapes as if it had nothing else to do in the universe.”
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