To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the sma… - Galileo Galilei

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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.

Galileo Galilei

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican · October 2, 2001 Verified in 2 sources · 1 more available Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance.

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Alternative Names: Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei • Galileo • G. Galilei • Galilei

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This vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never understanding anything.

"E pur si muove."

(And yet it moves.)

(What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

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