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“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
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“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written”
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“It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.”
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“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work ... all the more willingly because I have for many years been a partisan of the Copernican view because it reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypothesis. To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless people (for very great is the number of the stupid).
{Letter to fellow revolutionary astronomer Johannes Kepelr}”
― Frammenti e lettere
{Letter to fellow revolutionary astronomer Johannes Kepelr}”
― Frammenti e lettere
Andrew’s 2024 Year in Books
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