One of his most quoted lines captures his belief in lifelong learning: “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” For Galileo, every person had something to teach, ...

When a construction project is named after Galileo, the renowned 15th century Italian physicists dubbed the "Father of Modern Physics," the pressure is on to build something fairly magnificent — ...

Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high ...

Mount Holyoke professor Peterson reviews Galileo's life and works while discussing his contemporaries and predecessors, classical Greek and Roman views, and the interplay between mathematics and the ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Peter Watson, Emeritus professor, Physics, Carleton ...