Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
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Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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