Galileo Galilei

us certainty, the humanists allowed for a new field of understanding that we now call the sciences. While inquisitions would carry on for a century — Galileo was a boy when Montaigne was writing — the scepticism that Montaigne advanced against religious violence in 1580 is the same as that which Boyle, New

Bertolt Brecht, the playwright, has Galileo Galilei expressing faith in the "gentle force of reason", which people cannot withstand in the long run. The nuclear and space age, with the apocalyp

are essential for the progress of the human race. Mr. Gromyko referred to the tremendous and beneficial impact on mankind of the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo and Einstein. Fortunately for Copernicus he lived at a time and in a place where new thought, challenging accepted philosophy, could be published and

ocial development. It is impossible to place any barriers on them, just as it was impossible to prevent the triumph of the teaching of Copernicus and Galileo and of Einstein’s theory of relativity. 102.