# Who are you - Galileo or Socrates?

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**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-galileo-or-socrates/462309 "2008-09-06T06:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-you-galileo-or-socrates/462309/8 "2008-09-07T00:07:45Z")

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Suggestion for OP: take out either Socrates or Galileo, one or the other, since the circumstances were so different, and ask “You’re Galileo/Socrates- the rack/hemlock, or the truth?”

Anyone else always think of Steve Martin when the Death of Socrates is mentioned? (“Socrates, what is the meaning of life? Socrates, is there a God? Not one time did anyone ever ask ‘Socrates, did you know hemlock is poisonous?’”)

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