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Galileo Galilei quotes

1564–1642 · Italian astronomer and physicist

Galileo turned the telescope on the sky and was tried by the Inquisition for saying the Earth moves. His defiant last words are almost certainly a legend.

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2 famous lines credited to Galileo Galilei that are misquoted, unsourced or belong to someone else.

Misquoted
Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

The real words: In The Assayer (1623) he wrote that the book of the universe "is written in the language of mathematics" — God is not in the sentence.

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And yet it moves.

The trail: First printed in 1757, more than a century after his trial. No contemporary records it.