Karthik Shashidhar

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Galileo, a man as impatient for fame as he was derisive of anyone who presumed to obstruct him from obtaining it, failed to see this as an issue. His contempt for Aristotle, whom he ranked alongside all the most miserable things in life – ‘plague, urinals, debt’21 – was matched only by his impatience with the philosopher’s admirers: ‘the potbellied theologians who locate the limits of of human genius in his writings’.
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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