"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"The surface of the Moon is not smooth, uniform, and precisely spherical as a great number of philosophers believe it to be, but is uneven, rough, and full of cavities and prominences, being not unlike the face of the Earth, relieved by chains of mountains and deep valleys."
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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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