• 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: 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, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.201, Oxford University Press