“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smal…”

“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”

— Galileo Galilei

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