“Who would dare assert we know all there is to be known?”
Even in 1613, he meant these as rhetorical questions to a close friend. Later, he was forced to reckon with a couple of men who did not agree.
I had a long romance with the man who wrote those stirring eternal truths, and thus dare to assert if I told Galileo about RFK Jr, and Dr. Oz and Kid Rock and Lee Zeldin and Trump, and all the other anti-science and anti-discovery and anti-vaxxer weirdos who are in 2026 setting a limit to the mind (and lives) of man…well…
