Galileo Galilei Quotes
Astronomer
Galileo Galilei was astronomer from Italy
“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.”— Galileo Galilei
Galileo wrote this in his 1615 letter to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, defending the compatibility of science and Scripture. He argued that God gave humans reason precisely so they would use it to understand the natural world. The Church banned the letter.
The Story of Galileo
Died under house arrest and was proven right by everyone who followed
Galileo spent his last nine years confined to his villa in Arcetri, near Florence. He went completely blind in 1638 but continued working, completing Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations, his most important work on physics. He died on January 8, 1642 at seventy-seven. The Church did not formally acknowledge its error until 1992. Einstein called him the father of modern science.
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