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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 24348 |
| QUOTATION: | And yet ... it moves. |
| 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. |
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