“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”

His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5
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Variant: Light held together by moisture.

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Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564–1642

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