Feb 15 was the 444th birthday of ‘the first scientist’.

Though only putting some trivial things about him can never serve as a complete remembrance to the great figure:

The double name came about because a fifteenth-century ancestor of Galileo, called Galileo Bonaiuti, became such an important figure in society as name to Galilei in his honour. —The Scientists, John Gribbin

But before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality, a second fundamental truth was needed, which only became common property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts form experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics—indeed, of modern science altogether. —Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

That’s all.