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Giorgio de Santillana

“The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.”

Giorgio De Santillana, The Crime of Galileo
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The Crime of Galileo The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
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