Flag Quotes (2)
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
From the play Galileo Galilei (2001) .
See also: | Marcus Tullius Cicero (24) | Nicolaus Copernicus (23) | Galileo Galilei (55) | History Of Science (19) | Race (14)
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
Jason Merchey, Values of the Wise (2004), 31.
See also: | Vacuum (7)
