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.
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Galileo GalileiQuoted in Stillman Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)
About Galileo Galilei
Italian astronomer and physicist often called the father of modern science. (1564-1642)
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