"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and physicist known for his pioneering work in heliocentrism and the scientific method.
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."
Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom."