"quotes"
- “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- “The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.”
- “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
- “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
- Galileo Galilei was born in the city of Pisa, in the northern Italian region of Tuscany
- Galileo enroled in the University of Pisa to pursue a degree in medicine
- 1589 : Galileo was hired as a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Pisa
- Galileo left Padua to take a new, more lucrative position in Tuscany
- Father Tommasso Caccini attacks Galileo in sermon in Florence, and later denounces him to the Inquisition