Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards." -- Galileo Galilei (b. 1564-02-15, d. 1642-01-08)

(I wish I'd thought to schedule this quotation for before last night's #qfaith chat on labels. (Link goes to a Storify archive of the conversation in forward chronological order. If you'd rather read in Twitter's native order -- mostly reverse-chronological but with the option of clicking on a tweet to see some of the replies and antecedents in forward order -- just search Twitter for the #qfaith hashtag, but do it soon, before much else gets posted with that hashtag.))