• It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls.

  Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author 1934-1996
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1. punishment
2. forbidden
3. immortal
4. which
5. their
6. souls

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It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls. by : Carl Sagan

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