We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.
タグ: souls, science, religion, reason, nature, heliocentricism, god, geocentricism, galileo, enlightenment, atheism, anthropocentrism

"Christopher Hitchens"の他の名言

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
タグ: comfort, true, will, me
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
タグ: afghanistan, enough, think, war
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
タグ: control, your, enemy, me
I'm terrified of losing my voice.
タグ: voice, losing
I like surprises.
タグ: like
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