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Astronomical Quotes
There are seven windows in the head, two nostrils, two eyes, two
ears and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favourable stars
, two unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided
and indifferent. From which and many other similar phenomena of
nature, such as the seven metals, etc., which it were tedious to
enumerate, we gather that the number of planets is necessarily
seven.
- Francesco Sizzi (argument against Galileo's discovery of the satellites of Jupiter)
Which is more useful, the Sun or the Moon? ...The Moon is the
more useful, since it gives us light during the night, when it is
dark, whereas the Sun shines only in the daytime, when it is light
anyway.
- Fictitious philosopher created by George Gamow
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