Doe Quote by Galileo Galilei

“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“E pur si muove." (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, 'Still,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about…

— Alan Turing

It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.

— Aristotle

“Whether or not the person I think of as me undergoes any essential changes, the earth never stops circling the sun at it's old…

— Haruki Murakami

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In some sense, gravity does not exist28; what moves the planets and stars is the distortion of space and time.”

— Bill Bryson

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the…

— Galileo Galilei