“The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.”
“When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it?”
“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.)[What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]”
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
“What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
“Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.”