In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Galileo GalileiThird letter on sunspots (1612), as translated in Arago (1859)
About Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist often called the father of modern science. (1564-1642)
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- I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.Quoted in Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins (1961); no primary source
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