"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
"They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses."
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Source: Galileo Galilei (2010). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.
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