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The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.” - Mahatma Gandhi “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” - Martin Luther King Jr., “Strength to Love” For thousands of years, nations and their people have questioned scientific discoveries as well as their place in the midst of politics, humanity and other social institutions such as the church, who, up until the early 18th Century, controlled the institutes of higher learning where men of deep religious faith studied the sciences. Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo Galilei, a great Renaissance scientist, was one of these men, whose ideas were constantly controlled and scrutinized by Church officials if they questioned the bible’s traditional ways of thought. Although he himself was a Catholic, in the 1600’s, Galileo finds himself in conflict with the Catholic Church and other scientists for h