A FEW WORDS can record profound ideas or memorable moments in history. Quotes such as, "Houston, we have a problem" or Carl Sagan's "billions and billions" resonate in our collective memory. But it turns out that our memory isn't always right. Some of history's most well known lines are misremembered, and quotations about astronomy are no exception. From Galileo to the Apollo missions, from Star Trek to Cosmos, I'll try to set the record straight on some of astronomy's most popular misquotes.
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