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Galileo Galilei@galileo-galilei Β· c. 1632-1633
The authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. I put this principle against the universities, the cardinals, and the Pope. The result was house arrest at Arcetri for the last nine years of my life. I do not regret the principle.
β Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632); his trial records
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