[She glances up, meeting his eyes for that answer, quietly pleased by the honesty of it. She doesn't expect that all the time, but it's pleasant to hear something truthful instead of some line.]
Galileo. I won't make you stand by while I read through them all, because I have no doubt that'd be very dull for you, but . . . I wanted to at least get to see him, if nothing else.
[A beat. She glances down at the texts, then meets his gaze again, a little smile on her face.]
It's timely, I suppose. One of the first reasons Galileo wanted to test the theory of gravity was because he refused to accept the explanation that things returned to the earth because they wanted to, or because it was in there inherent nature to fall. He wanted an explanation, rather than just accepting a handwaved explanation or what others had declared authoritatively true, but which he questioned.
. . . I still don't know what's going on here. Not with the app, nor all the changes it seems to inspire. But it's soothing, I suppose, to look at the writings of a man who was in the same position.
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Galileo. I won't make you stand by while I read through them all, because I have no doubt that'd be very dull for you, but . . . I wanted to at least get to see him, if nothing else.
[A beat. She glances down at the texts, then meets his gaze again, a little smile on her face.]
It's timely, I suppose. One of the first reasons Galileo wanted to test the theory of gravity was because he refused to accept the explanation that things returned to the earth because they wanted to, or because it was in there inherent nature to fall. He wanted an explanation, rather than just accepting a handwaved explanation or what others had declared authoritatively true, but which he questioned.
. . . I still don't know what's going on here. Not with the app, nor all the changes it seems to inspire. But it's soothing, I suppose, to look at the writings of a man who was in the same position.