What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything?
Galileo Galilei quote The Bible tells us how to go to the heavens, not how the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei quote You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei quote To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover.
Galileo Galilei quote Biography
Scientist who was punished for his claims that the earth revolves