“Moreover, the satellites of Jupiter are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can exercise no influence over the Earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.” — Astronomer Francesco Sizzi, on Galileo’s claim to have seen the moons of Jupiter
Quotations
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“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.” — Jean de La Fontaine
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“There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley
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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead
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“A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.” — Arthur Koestler
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“Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.” — Ben Jonson
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Half of the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
— T.S. Eliot
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“We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won’t like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel.” — Charles M. Schulz
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“Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects.” — Teacher’s assessment of 12-year-old Keith Moon, Alperton Secondary School, Wembley, 1958
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“He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.”
— Manet to Monet, on Renoir