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• The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable
  but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith....
• But it does move! -- Galileo Galilei
• Flee at once, all is discovered.
• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. -- Galileo Galilei
• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do
  ince, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand....
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
  -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)...