All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
In plain words
Every truth looks obvious afterwards. Finding it is the hard bit.
Where these words come from
- 37% sureLots of sources credit Galileo Galilei with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- 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
