Vincenzo Galilei Quote

It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act very absurdly. I, on the contrary, wish to be allowed freely to question and freely to answer you without any sort of adulation, as well becomes those who are in search of truth.


In: John Joseph Fahie, Galileo, Chapter I (p. 3)


It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act...

It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act...

It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act...

It appears to me that they who in proof of any assertion rely simply on the weight of authority, without adducing any argument in support of it, act...