QuoteQuest“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Loose paraphrase of Salviati on Day 3: "For when the sun draws up some vapors here, or warms a plant there, it draws these and warms this as if it had nothing else to do. Even in ripening a bunch of grapes, or perhaps just a single grape, it applies itself so effectively that it could not do more ev
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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
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