Famous Quotes | And yet ... it moves.

And yet ... it moves. - Galileo Galilei
Attribution: Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist. Remark to his companion, 1633. Statement attributed to Galileo as he rose from signing a recantation—forced on him by the Inquisition in Rome—of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system.

Categories: Astronomer, Defiance, Mathematician, Physicist

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