"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?"
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Source: Galileo Galilei, Raymond John Seeger (1966). “Men of physics: Galileo Galilei, his life and his works”
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