mommykink to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agoWhat popular quote are you tired of hearing?message-square280arrow-up1153arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareWhat popular quote are you tired of hearing?mommykink to Ask Lemmy • 1 year agomessage-square280file-text
minus-square@pizzazzlink17•1 year ago“Galileo too was ostracized for his beliefs, but he was right” Yeah but he did science, not that new age bullshit you think are an expert in.
minus-square@CoggyMcFeelink15•1 year ago They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl Sagan
minus-square@ForgotAboutDrelink4•1 year agoColumbus thought the world was pear shaped. Meaning it was viable to get to India by going west. If the Americas didn’t exist he would have died. It was well known at the time that the world was round. The ancient Greeks had a very good calculation if the circumference of the earth.
“Galileo too was ostracized for his beliefs, but he was right”
Yeah but he did science, not that new age bullshit you think are an expert in.
—Carl Sagan
Columbus thought the world was pear shaped. Meaning it was viable to get to India by going west. If the Americas didn’t exist he would have died.
It was well known at the time that the world was round. The ancient Greeks had a very good calculation if the circumference of the earth.