1564-1642	“Founder of Modern Experimental Science”	1564-1642
PERSONAL BACKGROUND Went to the university of Pisa Job experience as a professor He had no children and no wife	PERSONALITY Genius Overexcited Jittery	SIGNIFICANCE Today we remember Galileo by reproducing telescopes all across the world. We would not have landed on the moon without what he did.
His biggest obstacle was getting people to believe his theory that earth is not the center of the universe.	One of Galileo’s quotes is “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover it.”	http://www.goodshepherdwi.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei