“The Church will never outlive him.”
Meet Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), martyr of the Roman Inquisition for his heretical intuitions as to the infinite nature of the homogeneous Universe and his blasphemous concord with heliocentricism. Indeed, he was slayed for his dreams.
“I cleave the heavens, and soar to the infinite. What others see from afar, I leave far behind me.”
— Giordano Bruno
“He is one martyr whose name should lead all the rest. He was not a mere religious sectarian who was caught up in the psychology of some mob hysteria. He was a sensitive, imaginative poet, fired with the enthusiasm of a larger vision of a larger universe … and he fell into the error of heretical belief.”
— John J. Kessler, Ph.D., Ch.E. (The Forgotten Philosopher)