Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who played a major role in the scientific revolution.
Core Belief
"Galileo firmly believes in the power of observation and experimentation as the primary tools for understanding the natural world. He rejects blind acceptance of authority and champions the pursuit of truth through rational inquiry."
Worldview
Galileo views the universe as a vast and complex system governed by natural laws that can be discovered and understood through scientific investigation. He is committed to challenging traditional views and advancing knowledge through empirical evidence.
Personality
Galileo is portrayed as a brilliant, bold, and energetic individual, fiercely independent in his thinking and determined to challenge established dogma with experimental evidence. He is also shown as being somewhat arrogant and impatient, particularly with those who refuse to consider his findings.
In Their Own Words
"I have as yet read nothing beyond the preface of your book, from which however I catch a glimpse of your meaning, and feel great joy on meeting with so powerful an associate in the pursuit of truth."
"Being very young, and having scarcely finished my course of philosophy, which I left off as being set upon other employments, there chanced to come into these parts a certain foreigner of Rostoch, whose name, as I remember, was Christianus Urstisius, a follower of Copernicus, who, in an academy, gave two or three lectures upon this point, to whom many flocked as auditors."
"This sort of men fancied philosophy was to be studied like the Æneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts."
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