Galileo on Human Nature

Galileo on Human Nature 2012-10-26T06:10:04+00:00

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

From a letter written to Don Virginio Cesarini from Galileo Galilei (1621)


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