At the age of 69, infirm and losing his sight, Galileo was interrogated by the Inquisition. He was coerced under threat of torture to abjure his discoveries and theories about the solar system. He was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. He consented, but, leaving the room of interrogation was reported to have said, about the earth and the heliocentric theory he had just been forced to deny, “It still moves’.
“Eppur si muove.”
At the age of 69, infirm and losing his sight, Galileo was interrogated by the Inquisition. He was coerced under threat of torture to abjure his discoveries and theories about the solar system. He was sentenced to house arrest for the remainder of his life. He consented, but, leaving the room of interrogation was reported to have said, about the earth and the heliocentric theory he had just been forced to deny, “It still moves’.
A mind that refused to bend.