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Theme: “Have You Forgotten Doublethink?”
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If there was an infinity of worlds, as Bruno maintained, for whom in particular had Christ died on this earth? If the universe was eternal, what would become of God the Creator? Acceptance of the Copernican cosmology was a religious...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World
by Frank E. Manuel
In fact most of Copernicus' book runs closely parallel with Ptolemy's exposition, only the minimum changes being made to adjust the treatment of the Sun-centered theory; and most of the numerical constants are simply Ptolemy's figures transformed. Not unnaturally, Copernicus...
Source: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
by Nicolaus Copernicus
Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
Source: 1984
by George Orwell
One group of the religious looked upon the absorption with secondary causes as a deflection from contemplation of the divine Primary Cause and hence suspect, if not heretical, especially when propositions like the Copernican hypothesis, touted as absolute truths, contradicted...
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World
by Frank E. Manuel
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Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus?
Source: One
by U2
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