QuoteQuest“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana
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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
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