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“Toda verdad es fácil de comprender una vez que ha sido descubierta, el problema es descubrirla”
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“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”
― Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
― Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”
― Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
― Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”
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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 To refute the latter I have collected many proofs, but I do not publish them, because I am deterred by the fate of our teacher Copernicus who, although he had won immortal fame with a few, was ridiculed and condemned by countless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
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