"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
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Source: Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler (2016). “The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries”, p.30, Library of Alexandria
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