E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)
Interpretation
Galileo affirmed the truth of his scientific beliefs despite external pressure to deny them.
This quote, attributed to Galileo Galilei, represents the resilience of scientific truth against oppression and the courage to uphold one's beliefs in the face of adversity. After being forced to renounce his heliocentric views during the Inquisition, Galileo's whispered declaration emphasizes that the earth indeed moves, symbolizing the triumph of reason and evidence over dogma and fear.
In practice
During a science seminar discussing the importance of standing by one's findings despite criticism.
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand.
We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ... Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!
Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.
Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.
Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next morning, you have remembering rather than forgetting.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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