And Believe Me, If I Were Again

Among The Great Men Who Have Philosophized About [the Action Of The Tides], The One Who Surprised Me Most Is Kepler. He Was A Person Of Independent Genius, [but He] Became Interested In The Action Of The Moon On The Water, And In Other Occult Phenomena, And Similar Childishness.

Mathematics Is The Language With Which God Has Written The Universe.

Scripture Is A Book About Going To Heaven. It's Not A Book About How The Heavens Go.

And Who Can Doubt That It Will Lead To The Worst Disorders When Minds Created Free By God Are Compelled To Submit Slavishly To An Outside Will? When We Are Told To Deny Our Senses And Subject Them To The Whim Of Others? When People Devoid Of Whatsoever Competence Are Made Judges Over Experts And Are Granted Authority To Treat Them As They Please? These Are The Novelties Which Are Apt To Bring About The Ruin Of Commonwealths And The Subversion Of The State.

I Am Certainly Interested In A Tribunal In Which, For Having Used My Reason, I Was Deemed Little Less Than A Heretic. Who Knows But Men Will Reduce Me From The Profession Of A Philosopher To That Of Historian Of The Inquisition!