Andrew Chavez

“In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.”
― Galileo Galilei

“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
― Galileo Galilei

“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
― Galileo Galilei, Frammenti e lettere

“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
― Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo