Reason and Wonder Quotes

“In 1835, Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems was officially dropped from the Index of Prohibited Books, where it had lain since 1664. On November 17, 1979, Pope John Paul II addressed the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to encourage open-minded reexamination of the Galileo case, and in 1982 the Galileo Commission was formally charged to investigate the “grave incomprehension” of the “Galileo affair.”90 In October 1992, 350 years following Galileo’s death, Pope John Paul II officially apologized for the church’s harsh treatment of Galileo, conceding finally that the earth moves.”
― Dave Pruett, Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit