I Am Aware That A Philosopher's Ideas

Every Light Has Its Shadow, And Every Shadow Hath A Succeeding Morning.

Yet The Widespread Planetary Theories, Advanced By Ptolemy And Most Other Astronomers, Although Consistent With The Numerical Data, Seemed Likewise To Present No Small Difficulty. For These Theories Were Not Adequate Unless They Also Conceived Certain Equalizing Circles, Which Made The Planet Appear To Move At All Times With Uniform Velocity Neither On Its Deferent Sphere Nor About Its Own Epicycle's Center.

If There Should Chance To Be Any Mathematicians Who, Ignorant In Mathematics Yet Pretending To Skill In That Science, Should Dare, Upon The Authority Of Some Passage Of Scripture Wrested To Their Purpose, To Condemn And Censure My Hypothesis, I Value Them Not, And Scorn Their Inconsiderate Judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

For I Am Not So Enamoured Of My Own Opinions That I Disregard What Others May Think Of Them.

The Massive Bulk Of The Earth Does Indeed Shrink To Insignificance In Comparison With The Size Of The Heavens.