always welcome. His discoveries clashed with deeply held dogmas. And yet he understood something that takes many lifetimes to learn:
Not all arguments are worth your energy.
Not because there is a lack of arguments, but because some minds do not try to understand, only to impose them.
The great lesson: you cannot argue with someone who does not want to understand.
One of the ideas attributed to Galileo (and other great thinkers) summarizes this ancient wisdom:
Never try to convince someone who is comfortable in his ignorance.
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