"It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science."

-- Victor Hugo

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“I take a breath when I have to.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I regularly watch the scorecards of all Ranji matches.”
“You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.”
“What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?”
“A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.”
“I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.149, Penguin
“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.”
“It was he [Vincent] who helped me to accommodate my life in such a way that I can be at peace with myself. Serenity - this was the favorite word of both of them [Vincent and Theo], the something they considered the highest. Serenity - I have found it.”

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