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Zachriel: Some people refused to even look through Galileo's telescope … Eppur si muove. fifth monarchy man: You want us to accept that it moves with out so much as a glimmer of evidence that this is the case.
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Dinosaurs roamed the Earth. is as well established a fact as Eppur si muove.
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This, one of the most famous quotes in history - "Eppur si muove" (but still, it does move) - is without doubt apocryphal.
Gardner Dozois (ed.) - Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science vs. Superstition (Book Review) 2008
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This, one of the most famous quotes in history - "Eppur si muove" (but still, it does move) - is without doubt apocryphal.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Until then, I feel like a minor Galileo, muttering "Eppur si muove".
Stanley Fish on the Ward Churchill verdict. Ann Althouse 2009
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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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But when we say "Eppur si muove!", this remains a valid statement * within* the scientific paradigm.
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But when we say "Eppur si muove!", this remains a valid statement * within* the scientific paradigm.
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For example, did Galileo, while being tried in the Vatican for his heretical astronomy, say Eppur si muove nevertheless, it moves?
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Everything is a myth 2008
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"Eppur si muove," he supposedly said of the earth.
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