Galileo Galilei Quotes
I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galilei, Galileo. Letter to Giuliano de' Medici, 11 Dec. 1610. Galileo: His Life and Work, by J. J. Fahie, John Murray, 1903, p. 109.
In the French & Indian War, Braddock had organized a military expedition to destroy some of the forts that the French had constructed. (See {37008}.) Braddock and the other military officers thought that the force Braddock had organized would be overwhelming and easily accomplish the objective. Benjamin Franklin was one of the only Colonial leaders who expressed concern about the expedition–{583427}. This was one of the first battles for a promising young officer named George Washington who had two horses shot out from under him.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method", and the "father of modern science".