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“If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.”

— Galileo Galilei

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Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei
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Context

Salviati, p. 88

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Galilei, Galileo. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Galileo Galilei. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

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