Bruno had a mind. He had dreams and visions. Repeatedly. And they were all just dumb luck? Please...what was it that gave him that mind? Gaia? The Universe?
I hope Tyson wrote that. Because it fits in well with what I know of him and my opinion of him. A knob.
Tyson is entertaining, and likeable, but he is no Carl Sagan.
I DO appreciate his work, though. He once told a little girl what asked about going into science when she grows up something like “that’s the good thing about going into science- you never have to grow up”
Which is the most brilliant thing I ever heard him say. (and I agree because I am in science too so there nyah nyah)
Perhaps they'll find authoritative the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Thus, in 1600 there was no official Catholic position on the Copernican system, and it was certainly not a heresy. When Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) was burned at the stake as a heretic, it had nothing to do with his writings in support of Copernican cosmology ..."