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By the end of Galileo’s first year, the university authorities were docking his pay … For his refusal to wear the regulation academic regalia at all times. Galileo deemed official doctoral dress a pretentious nuisance and he derided the toga in a three-hundred-line verse spoof that enjoyed wide readership in that college town [Pisa]. Any kind of clothing got in the way of men’s and women’s frank appraisals of each others attributes, he argued in ribald rhyme, while professional uniforms hid the true merits of character under a cloak of social standing. Worse, the dignity of the professor’s gown guarded him from the brothel, denying him the evil pleasures of whoring while resigning him to the equally sinful solace of …. The gown impeded walking, to say nothing of working.
Sobel, D. (2000). Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (LATER PRINTING.). Penguin (Non-Classics) , p. 19, Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/Galileos-Daughter-Historical-Memoir-Science/dp/0140280553/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294714392&sr=1-1-fkmr1
- Why The Inquisition Was Right to Muzzle Galileo Galilei (Part Three) (scienceray.com)
- Galileo Galilei: Contributions to Science (scienceray.com)
- Why The Inquisition Was Right to Muzzle Galileo Galilei (Part Two) (scienceray.com)
- Nothing but the Facts About Galileo Galilei (brighthub.com)
- Measuring hell (boston.com)
- Europe opens an Arctic eye on Galileo (physorg.com)
- Galileo’s Telescope (design-milk.com)
- Galileo’s controversial moon drawings (boingboing.net)
Though the ambitions of those who wish to start a great learning institution are admirable, chances are, says Stanford President John Hennessy, that they lack the financial resources to make it so. Ten billion dollars is mere seed funding, says Hennessy. If one still decides to pursue the business of academia, he suggests that the rollout is slow. Start small and excellent, with a single great program, and scale gradually. Your organization will go farther than if you begin both broad and thin. If your institution is quality, it will attract top talent from across the globe, promoting its own future success.
Source: Stanford University, Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture, February 18, 2009,
