Galileo Galilei: “[n]ature is written in the language of mathematics.” 

A scientist, astronomer, and mathematician, Galileo was one of the great minds of the Renaissance.  He also has a complicated history with the church that arose out of his defense of Copernican heliocentrism—the view that the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe. But for all the drama of that disagreement, Galileo, […]