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Well, yes, and at one time "virtually the entire world population" thought the sun revolved around the earth and the earth was still - "eppur si muove"!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Doubtless the aspect of that supreme concern of life does change less rapidly, but change it does and must: _eppur si muove_.
Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan
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(The museum director also dismissed as a "myth" the idea that Galileo uttered "eppur si muove" - "and yet it moves" - to his inquisitors after his conviction.)
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Galileo also rejected heliocentrism, but eppur si muove.
Planet Atheism 2008
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