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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
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.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Among all the great men who have philosophized about this remarkable effect, I am more astonished at Kepler than at any other. Despite his open and acute mind, and though he has at his fingertips the motions attributed to the earth, he nevertheless lent his ear and his assent to the moon's dominion over the waters, to occult properties, and to such puerilities.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)