“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

—  Galileo Galilei

As quoted in Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work (1999) by Melissa Giovagnoli
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Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564–1642

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