Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian scientist and mathematician

Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run the risk of eventually having to condemn as heretics those who would declare the earth to stand still and the sun to change position -- eventually, I say, at such a time as it might be proved that the earth moves and the sun stands still.

Dialogue on Two Chief World Systems (1632)

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