British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really.10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.
Massimo Pigliucci
British astronomer royal Richard Woolley, who in 1956 said, All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really.10 Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the earth just five years later.
Massimo Pigliucci (Italian: [ˈmassimo piʎˈʎuttʃi]; born January 16, 1964) is an Italian-American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York, former co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast, and former editor in chief for the online magazine Scientia Salon. He is a critic of pseudoscience and creationism, and an advocate for secularism and science education.
