So nice to hear Dr. Sagan's voice.
From YT: Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 -- 8 January 1642) was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His achievements include the first systematic studies of uniformly accelerated motion, improvements to the telescope, a variety of astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo's experiment-based work is a significant break from the abstract approach of Aristotle. Galileo is often referred to as the "father of modern astronomy", as the "father of modern physics", and as the "father of science". The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, treated in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics.
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CaptainPlanet420I'm now convinced Agent Smith from the Matrix was solely based upon Carl Sagan - both his disturbingly boring voice and serial killer good looks.
schmawyAdmittedly, he's no Steven Seagal.
AnimalsForCrackerssays...Cannot "truth" defend itself in it's confrontation with "error"?
QFT.
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HadouKen24says...To be fair, Galileo was kind of a dick.
He was far more confrontational and disruptive than he needed to be. This is because, it seems, he had goals more than simply the pursuit of the truth. He was also pursuing political goals as well, trying to improve the court status of the mathematician.
That's not to say that the Church didn't fight against the truth to maintain its political power. Just that it's a lot more complicated than Sagan presents. By focusing on only a few elements of Galileo's persecution, Sagan really does cast Galileo as a myth--a symbol-story standing for and exemplifying a certain view of the relationship between science and faith.
It's not entirely a wrong view. But it is incomplete.
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COriolanusThe Catholic Church was the original New World Order.
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