"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)"
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Source: How the Mind Works. Book by Steven Pinker (p. 359), 1997.
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