Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The sun with all these 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.

    Galileo Galilea, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

 

 

 

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