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The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Giordano Bruno

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Giordano Bruno
Died: 1600
Died: February 17
Astrologer
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Dominican Friar
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Philosopher
Poet
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University Teacher
Writer
Filippo Bruno
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
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Since I have spread my wings to purpose high, The more beneath my feet the clouds I see, The more I give the winds my pinions free, Spurning the earth and soaring to the sky.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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I fought, and therefore, believed in my victory. There is more to the fact that I didn't fear death and preferred a brave death instead of a life of an idiot.
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There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.
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In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets we see only the suns because they give light the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns.
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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