"I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth."

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For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni