They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, … - Galileo Galilei

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Galileo Galilei

They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly. . . . Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit.

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We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

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