“Tragic mutual incomprehension”

— Pope John Paul II, 1992, regarding the relationship between Galileo and the Catholic church. Via wikipedia, Eppur si muove.

E pur si muove

“E pur si muove, as Galileo is reputed to have said in the face of Cardinal Bellarmine’s certainties, ‘And yet it moves.’”

— Via James Boyle’s The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain (pdf).