“All the same, it moves”

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.” Albert Camus, The Plague — 1948

To often the reason we find it hard to believe in “pestilences crashing down on our heads from a blue sky” is because those in power don’t want us to assign any responsibility to them for failing to protect us and minimize harm from the crash.

In 1633, the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei, one of the founders of modern science, to recant his theory that the Earth moves around the Sun. Under threat of torture, Galileo — seen facing his inquisitors — recanted. The Church simply could not accept anything other than a geocentric ( I.e. the Earth being the center of the universe, with the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets all orbited Earth ) view of the universe.

However, as Galileo left the courtroom, he is said to have muttered, “all the same, it moves”, meaning the Earth, like other planets, moved around the Sun.

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