- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Galileo Quotes
Science, discovery, and the clash with belief.
Galileo's dispute with the Church still shapes how we talk about science versus faith, and these quotes revisit that clash alongside modern comparisons to visionaries like Steve Jobs. The theme pairs with quotes about being Alone in holding an unpopular truth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wound up getting offered a job at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I invented a power supply mechanism for the Galileo space craft which was in orbit around Jupiter until 2003.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are maybe three inventions I have that I rank as my top inventions that I'm most proud of. The robot I built in high school, the memory-protected circuitry for the Galileo and the Super Soaker.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020