What popular quote are you tired of hearing?mommykink@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 142 points – 12 months agoBonus points if it's usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it279Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all comments"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. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl SaganColumbus 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. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl SaganColumbus 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.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. —Carl SaganColumbus 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.
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.
"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.