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From Life of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht, translated by John Willett

HANDED

"For a few years I was as strong as the authorities. And I handed my knowledge to those in power for them to use, fail to use, misuse -- whatever best suited their objectives."

From 14, 1633-1642, Galileo Galilei Lives in a House in the Country Near Florence, a Prisoner of the Inquisition till He Dies, the 'Discorsi'

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From Critical History and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume Two, by Thomas Babbington Macaulay

WE ARE

"We are confident that the world will never go back to the solar system of Ptolemy; nor is our confidence in the least shaken by the circumstance, that even so great a man as Bacon rejected the theory of Galileo with scorn; for Bacon had not all the means of arriving ay a sound conclusion which are within our reach, and which secure people who would not have been worthy to mend his pens from falling into his mistakes."

From Von Ranke