Name:    Galileo Galilei

Born: 02/15/1564, in Pisa, Italy

Died: 01/08/1642, outside Florence, Italy

Known For:   Physicist, astronomer, mathematician, inventor, great thinker and human, and all-round heretic.

Quote:  “And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.”

[On the margin of his own copy of Dialogue on the Great World Systems].

Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956)

Trivia:Our male golden retriever (born Feb. 5, 2001) is named after Galileo.

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