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'Eppur si muove'

Posted by Gimwinkle on Sunday, April 20 2014 at 11:12:40PM
In reply to When people silence us, remember this quote... posted by AK47 on Sunday, April 20 2014 at 10:00:51PM

Remember Galileo.

"And yet it moves" (Italian: Eppur si muove) is a phrase said to have been uttered before the Inquisition by the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant that the earth moves around the sun. In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite this recantation, the Church's proclamations to the contrary, or any other conviction or doctrine of men, the Earth does, in fact, move around the sun, and not vice versa. As such, the phrase is used today as a sort of pithy retort implying that

"it doesn't matter what you believe; these are the facts".





Gimwinkle





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