All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point… — Galileo Galilei · Smartyfair

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei1564–1642 · scientist · 1500s-1600s ItalyGalileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and physicist, born in 1564 — the same year Michelangelo died — who built one of the first powerful telescopes and used it to discover moons orbiting Jupiter.5 quotes

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Every truth looks obvious afterwards. Finding it is the hard bit.

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What turned up: Wikiquote places this in the Attributed section, sourced only to a 1999 motivational-business book (Melissa Giovagnoli, Angels in the Workplace), not to any of Galileo's own writings
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