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«In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.»
Author: Alan Turing
(Logician, Mathematician)
| Keywords:
adequate, argued, Copernican, foundations, Galileo, go down, Joshua, psalm, refutation, refutations, texts, The Foundations
«One Galileo in two thousand years is enough»
«I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Psychology
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Darwin, e'en, Einstein, Freud, Galileo, humanist, humanists, i.e., I E, Marx, oldest, perceiving, psychology, revolutions, trend, truest
«ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! . . . GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.»
«Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?»
«If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
Galileo, inquisition, inquisitions, the Inquisition, verse
«Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Copernicus, flesh, Galileo, Luther, misunderstood, Pythagoras, Socrates
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