Galileo on Human Nature

Last updated on: October 26, 2012 at 6:10 am by Joe Carter

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

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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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