“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” This quote from Galileo was a great representation of how he lived his life, teaching himself new theories and discovering explanations in physics and astronomy. Galileo greatly changed the world with his ideas and the perfection of the telescope. Many people take for granted the telescope but few realize that Galileo perfected it to see out in space. He challenged the ideas of the church at that time and helped prove that the Earth revolves around the sun and that the Earth moves and rotates. He published his ideas and changed the world of astronomy, physics, and philosophy forever. Without Galileo’s courage to stand up for what he believed in and going …show more content…
He had befriended Pope Urban VIII and in 1624 he had an interview with the pope. He discussed his view, his works and his discoveries. He tried convincing the Pope that his ideas and notions were correct and the ideas that people believed at the time about astronomy and science were wrong. The Pope gave Galileo permission to publish a book about his theories of the universe but only under the condition that the Copernican Theory was treated as a possibility and not as a confirmed fact. “Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?” this quote said from Galileo really describes his stubbornness on his beliefs, even though he agreed to follow the guidelines he just couldn’t tell lies about how he felt. Once the book was published people did not take it lightly as the book did ridicule the church and their beliefs. The pope called for a meeting to examine the book and they found that Galileo did not follow through with his word. He did not keep the Copernican Theory hypothetical instead he made it seem more like it was a fact and the