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He is absolutely sure that “the old days are over and this is a new time." However, he proves to be horribly wrong, for people do not want to perceive that truth, and would rather stay ignorant to the ways of the world.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='galileo'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#galileo"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"Truth is born of the times, not of authority."</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Galileo</footer> </blockquote> <p>Having understood that his guests are going to deny the truth as long as they need to, Galileo tries to make them understand that “truth is born if the times, not of authority." He hope is that truth’s gravity might help him to break the wall of society's ignorance, but nothing seems to work. He asks them not to ask “where truth is leading,” and instead just to follow it.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='sagredo'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#sagredo"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"Do you imagine he will merely note in his diary: January 10th 1610—got rid of heaven?"</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Sagredo</footer> </blockquote> <p>Although Galileo is a wise man, he is also rather naïve. Somehow he manages to convince himself that everyone is going to be amenable to him proving that the Copernican system is the correct one. One of his acquaintances, Sagredo, tries to show him just how dangerous his ideas might actually be, suggesting that Galileo's work has the potential to completely destroy Judeo-Christian ideology in a way that church officials will not easily take to.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='the-procurator'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#the-procurator"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"You made an unfortunate choice of subject, Mr. Galilei."</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>The Procurator</footer> </blockquote> <p>The procurator says this to Galileo to suggest that his choosing to study science, while intellectually stimulating, is not a particularly lucrative field. After Galileo complains to him about his low salary, the procurator blames it on the fact that it is not popular in the marketplace, rather than the fact that the economic system does not reward innovation.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='an-astronomer'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#an-astronomer"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"There <em>are </em>phenomena that present difficulties for us astronomers, but does mankind have to understand everything?"</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>An astronomer</footer> </blockquote> <p>An astronomer says this to Galileo at the Collegium Romanum, protesting Galileo's discoveries by suggesting that it is better for them to remain in ignorance than to question every little detail of science. This line represents the kind of willful ignorance against which Galileo is fighting.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='the-little-monk'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#the-little-monk"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"They have been assured that God's eye is always on them—probingly, even anxiously—: that the whole drama of the world is constructed around them so that they, the performers, may prove themselves in their greater or lesser roles."</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>The Little Monk</footer> </blockquote> <p>The Little Monk says this to Galileo in the Florentine Ambassador's palace in Rome. He speaks about his parents, simple olive farmers, whose belief in God keeps them tied to their poverty, uncritical of the structures that oppress them. In their view, because God is all-knowing, they are living a life that has been determined for them and which is beyond criticism. The implications of Galileo's findings are enormous, in that they promise to break through this false sense of determinism, and give some autonomy to the average working person.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='galileo'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#galileo"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"Virtues are not an offshoot of poverty, my dear fellow."</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Galileo</footer> </blockquote> <p>This is Galileo's response to the Little Monk's claims. While the Little Monk suggests that poverty is somehow ennobling, at least in the eyes of his working-class parents, Galileo suggests that virtue is independent of struggle, and that those who have less ought to have a critical relationship to the world around them, and not imagine that they are the more virtuous just because they are poor.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='galileo'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#galileo"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"All you gentlemen need do is look through the telescope!"</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Galileo</footer> </blockquote> <p>When the Grand Duke and the courtly scholars visit Galileo's study, they insist that they only believe in the Aristotelian model of the universe, not the Copernican one that Galileo is trying to prove using his telescope. Ever optimistic that people will be persuaded by seeing the truth in front of them, Galileo urges them to look through his telescope to see for themselves, but they do not.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='galileo'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#galileo"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"Someone who doesn't know the truth is just thick-headed. But someone who does know it and calls it a lie is a crook."</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Galileo </footer> </blockquote> <p>Galileo says this to Mucius, to explain the fact that he thinks it is not just that the authorities are ignorant, but that they are willfully corrupt. In choosing not to believe the empirical evidence that Galileo has set forth with his studies, the scholars are committing a grave offense and are little more than "crooks" in his estimation.</p> </section> <section class='linkTarget' id='andrea'> <a class="linkTarget__link" href="#andrea"><svg class="icon icon--chain linkTarget__icon" viewBox="0 0 500 500"><use xlink:href="#chain"></use></svg> </a><blockquote class='quote'> <p>"Unhappy the land that has no heroes!"</p> <footer class='quote__attribute'>Andrea</footer> </blockquote> <p>Andrea says this after his mentor, Galileo, recants. 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At the time of its premiere, Brecht, who typically directed his own plays, handed over directorial duties to...</p></span> </div> </section> <figure class='participants--featured' itemprop='author' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <div class="js--lazyLoad" data-src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9336448b0517a268315ee24baf5e8f22?r=pg&s=30&d=retro" data-alt="" data-width="30" data-class="avatar participants__avatar"><canvas class="avatar participants__avatar js--lazyLoad__canvas" width="30" height="30"></canvas></div> <figcaption class='participants__detail'> <div class='participants__asked'> Asked by <span itemprop='author'>Shakthi T #1358678</span> </div> Answered by <span itemprop='contributor'>jill d #170087</span> <time class='participants__activity js--days-ago' datetime='2025-03-28T18:02:30Z' itemprop='dateModified'> on 3/28/2025 6:01 PM </time> </figcaption> </figure> <section class='question--featured__more'> <a role="link" class="link--more" href="/galileo/q-and-a/comment-on-the-play-the-life-of-galileo-458457">View All Answers</a> </section> </article> <article class='question--featured' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Question' role='article'> <section class='question--featured__details'> <div class='question--featured__question'> <p> <a itemprop="url" role="link" class="question--featured__link" href="/galileo/q-and-a/galileo-galilei-teacher-of-mathematics-at-padua-determines-to-prove-the-new-copernican-system-451156"><span itemprop='name'>GALILEO GALILEI, TEACHER OF MATHEMATICS AT PADUA, DETERMINES TO PROVE THE NEW COPERNICAN SYSTEM </span> </a></p> </div> <div class='question--featured__answer' itemprop='suggestedAnswer acceptedAnswer' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Answer'> <span itemprop='text'><p>The Republic of Venice could reap the rewards of researchers like Galileo. Because of the Inquisition Galileo has to abandon his research for eight years. </p></span> </div> </section> <figure class='participants--featured' itemprop='author' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Person'> <div class="js--lazyLoad" data-src="https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d9d145df62f4d3280a95cda5fc40277d?r=pg&s=30&d=retro" data-alt="" data-width="30" data-class="avatar participants__avatar"><canvas class="avatar participants__avatar js--lazyLoad__canvas" width="30" height="30"></canvas></div> <figcaption class='participants__detail'> <div class='participants__asked'> Asked by <span itemprop='author'>Michel S #1287513</span> </div> Answered by <span itemprop='contributor'>Aslan</span> <time class='participants__activity js--days-ago' datetime='2023-02-03T03:13:48Z' itemprop='dateModified'> on 2/3/2023 3:13 AM </time> </figcaption> </figure> <section class='question--featured__more'> <a role="link" class="link--more" href="/galileo/q-and-a/galileo-galilei-teacher-of-mathematics-at-padua-determines-to-prove-the-new-copernican-system-451156">View All Answers</a> </section> </article> <article class='question--featured' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Question' role='article'> <section class='question--featured__details'> <div class='question--featured__question'> <p> <a itemprop="url" role="link" class="question--featured__link" href="/galileo/q-and-a/is-life-of-galileo-a-tragedy-discuss-451064"><span itemprop='name'>Is "Life of Galileo" a tragedy? Discuss</span> </a></p> </div> <div class='question--featured__answer' itemprop='suggestedAnswer acceptedAnswer' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/Answer'> <span itemprop='text'><p>Certain aspects of Galileo's life might be considered tragic when we consider his personal life. The effects his actions had on his friends and family, but even more importantly the diffficult decisions he had to make. 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