Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.
Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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.
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