When we see men still so unhappily bound with prejudice and tradition that they are blind to the beauties and light of the grandest conception that science has yet won for man, we sorrow, and in sympathy again recall the plea that the unhappy Castelli made to the pope who was about to inflict punishment upon Galileo for his demonstration of the movements of the earth: "Your Holiness, nothing that can be done can now hinder the earth from moving."


"Evolution and Theological Belief" (1911)

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Ralph Vary Chamberlin Quotes

When we see men still so unhappily bound with prejudice and tradition that they are blind to the beauties and light of the grandest conception that...

When we see men still so unhappily bound with prejudice and tradition that they are blind to the beauties and light of the grandest conception that...

When we see men still so unhappily bound with prejudice and tradition that they are blind to the beauties and light of the grandest conception that...

When we see men still so unhappily bound with prejudice and tradition that they are blind to the beauties and light of the grandest conception that...