A wise man once delineated, “Talent, first, and foremost, is the ability to take a chance and to be calm enough to learn from mistakes.” In other words, if one is not audacious enough to take a chance and be at risk for failure, s/he cannot be considered to have talent. This is precisely the reason why many radicals can be considered to have talent. They take actions that compromise their well-being. Regardless of whether radicals have been perceived as a negative or positive existence, it is unequivocally true that many have shaken the foundations of the world, influenced the lives and actions of the mass, and utilized their profound understanding of the abstract to increase the people’s awareness of the unknown through repeated risk-taking actions. Radicals are often revolutionists who beget extensive change to the world, altering the perception …show more content…
For example, many scientists felt greatly disconcerted when Galileo Galilei supported the Sun-centered theory of the universe (1). This brought him into direct confrontation with the Roman Catholic Church because the theory starkly contradicted the seventeenth century belief that the Sun and all eight planets revolved around Earth. In addition, Galileo constructed a telescope as his own invention after examining the works of Dutch scientists (1). Harnessing the full capacity of the telescope, the radical procured astounding evidence about mountains on Earth’s Moon and about moons circling Jupiter. His radical findings emotionally gripped the world of science and drastically altered the field of astronomy in centuries to come. In publishing Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Galileo instigated an erosion of the distinction between Earth and the heavens (3). The book intrepidly discussed and compared the Copernican and Ptolemaic Systems