I, Galileo, Son Of The Late Vicenzo

If Experiments Are Performed Thousands Of Times At All Seasons And In Every Place Without Once Producing The Effects Mentioned By Your Philosophers, Poets, And Historians, This Will Mean Nothing And We Must Believe Their Words Rather Than Our Own Eyes?

And Believe Me, If I Were Again Beginning My Studies, I Should Follow The Advice Of Plato And Start With The Mathematical Sciences, Which Proceed Very Cautiously And Admit Nothing As Established Until It Has Been Rigorously Demonstrated.

Holy Scripture Could Never Lie Or Err...its Decrees Are Of Absolute And Inviolable Truth.

The Number Of People That Can Reason Well Is Much Smaller Than Those That Can Reason Badly. If Reasoning Were Like Hauling Rocks, Then Several Reasoners Might Be Better Than One. But Reasoning Isn't Like Hauling Rocks, It's Like, It's Like Racing, Where A Single, Galloping Barbary Steed Easily Outruns A Hundred Wagon-pulling Horses.

I Therefore Concluded, And Decided Unhesitatingly, That There Are Three Stars In The Heavens Moving About Jupiter, As Venus And Mercury About The Sun; Which At Length Was Established As Clear As Daylight By Numerous Other Observations.