Every leader-writer who thunders ‘Galileo’ at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does.

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.” It

long before even Copernicus stated it, it had been suggested in the very middle of the Middle Ages by Cusa: and that the persecuting Church proceeded to persecute him by making him a Cardinal.