Quotes from authors passed in 1642
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
Galileo Galilei
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
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Cardinal Richelieu
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
Galileo Galilei
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galileo Galilei
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