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Phrase attributed to Galileo Galilei on being forced to recant his scientific view

For the video game, see And Yet It Moves."Eppur si muove" redirects here. For other uses, see Eppur si muove (disambiguation).

Photograph of a painting, which one of its former owners had attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, depicting Galileo gazing at the wall of a prison cell on which the words "E pur si muove" appear (not fully legible in this image)
Original form	e pur si muove or eppur si muove
Coined by	Attributed to Galileo Galilei

"And yet it moves" or "Although it does move" (Italian: E pur si muove or Eppur si muove[epˈpursiˈmwɔːve]) is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun, rather than the converse.

In this context, the implication of the phrase is: despite his recantation,