| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000 : 20 March 2000 |
"A great man, Galileo. He invented the stethoscope. Or was it the television?" -- a gambler
The pope is another gambler: Both have a prescientific belief in the power of mystic ritual. Both admire Galileo in a strictly limited way. And they've taken opposite sides of Pascal's Wager.
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