Galileo and the Courage to See the Truth

*This story is debated among Galileo scholars, though most would agree that the story conveys Galileo’s unique approach to learning.

Galileo Galilei was a man who dared to look beyond what others believed. In his late teens, he observed a swinging lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa and noticed something remarkable: though the swings became smaller, each one took the same amount of time. That simple observation helped lead to the invention of the pendulum clock.