"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha."
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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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