“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
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“Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition as the great and perhaps ineradicable moral blot on the history of physics and the developments in modern physics that led to the atomic and hydrogen bombs.”
“Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.”
“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”
“she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.”
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.”