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Show CAUSTIC HUMOR OF GALILEO. Usud In Demolishing Argument Mario by Brother Scientist. In a recently published biography ot Galileo some stories aro told of tho caustic humor ot that bold Investigator. Investigat-or. Lotarlo Saral, a wr'ter on science, having said that tho Dabylonlans usod to cook cgg3 by whirling thorn In a Bllng, Galileo replied: "Tho causo of such an effect Is very romoto fiiom that to which It Is attributed and to And tho truo causo I shall reason thus: "If nn effect does not follow with us which followed with others at another tlmo It is becauso in our experiments ex-periments something Is wanting which wag tho causo of tho formor success; and' If only ono thing Is wanting to us that ono thing Is tho true causo. Now wo havo eggs and slings and strong j men to whirl them, and yet they wjll not becomo cookod; nay, If tnoy woro hot at first they moro quickly quick-ly becomo cold; and slnco nothing la wanting to us but to bo Babylonian It follows that being Dabylonlans Is the truo causo why tho eggs bocama cooked and not to tho friction of ths air, which is what I wish to provo." |
