Maria Popova uses excerpts from the revolutionary scientist's book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican — for which Albert Einstein wrote a modern foreword — to show how Galileo attacked superstition: "Nearly half a millennium before Carl Sagan crafted his Baloney Detection Kit, Galileo established himself as humanity’s premier nonsense-buster and made it his chief mission to counter ignorance and indolence with critical thinking."
October 14, 2015
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