Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution 1300 AD-1600 AD
Essential Questions
Where does "greatness" lie? Why must one "dare to know?"
Do we challenge "the man" enough today? Is the "Hero" in history simply a myth?
Do the demands of science necessarily preclude What does it take to change the the validity of religion? world?
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets" -Leonardo da Vinci
"What a piece of work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty; in form and moving, how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: a beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" -William Shakespeare
"Intellect does not attain its full force unless it attacks." -Madame de Stael
"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope-Self." -Martin Luther
"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen." -Martin Luther
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei
"Philosophy is written in this grand book-I mean the universe-which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures..." -Galileo Galilei
"Anyone can be angry-that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way-this is not easy." -Aristotle
"All nature and nature's law lay hid in night God said let Newton be and all was light." -Alexander Pope