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Pope Gregory
Galileo Galilei was a scientist during the Italian Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. He is considered to have founded modern physics and modern astronomy, in addition to pioneering the concept of gravity. Like Pope Gregory, he is a character in the medieval level of the Three-Body game. In the video game, he emphasizes the need for observation and experiment while also dismissing all Eastern thought as unscientific. He thus undercuts his argument for rationality with his irrational prejudice.
Galileo Galilei Quotes in The Three-Body Problem
The The Three-Body Problem quotes below are all either spoken by Galileo Galilei or refer to Galileo Galilei . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15 Quotes
“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our attention.”
“Mozi also conducted experiments and observations,” Wang said.
Galileo snorted. “Mozi’s way of thinking was still Eastern. He was nothing more than a mystic dressed as a scientist. He never took his own observation data seriously, and he constructed his model based on subjective speculation. Ridiculous!”
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Galileo Galilei Character Timeline in The Three-Body Problem
The timeline below shows where the character Galileo Galilei appears in The Three-Body Problem. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 15. Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day
...find several men sitting around a table. They introduce themselves as Pope Gregory, Aristotle, and Galileo.
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Galileo mocks the Eastern focus on “meditation” and “epiphany,” explaining that he prefers to understand the...
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The scholars burst out laughing, and Pope Gregory orders his servants to burn Wang. Galileo questions why nobody has ever seen three suns; Wang explains that the flying stars in...
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