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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Book by Galileo Galilei · 3 quotes · Earth, Science, Accomplished

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Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition Quotes

“The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?”

“Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position-eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be physically or logically proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.”