It Is A Beautiful And Delightful Sight

Alas! Your Dear Friend And Servant Galileo Has Been For The Last Month Hopelessly Blind; So That This Heaven, This Earth, This Universe, Which I By My Marvelous Discoveries And Clear Demonstrations Had Enlarged A Hundred Thousand Times Beyond The Belief Of The Wise Men Of Bygone Ages, Henceforward For Me Is Shrunk Into Such A Small Space As Is Filled By My Own Bodily Sensations.

We See Only The Simple Motion Of Descent, Since That Other Circular One Common To The Earth, The Tower, And Ourselves Remains Imperceptible. There Remains Perceptible To Us Only That Of The Stone, Which Is Not Shared By Us; And, Because Of This, Sense Shows It As By A Straight Line, Always Parallel To The Tower, Which Is Built Upright And Perpendicular Upon The Terrestrial Surface.

The Theologians Also Should Not Be Irritated. For If They Find That This Opinion Is False, Then They Would Be Free To Condemn It; And If They Discover That It Is True, They Ought To Thank Those Who Have Opened The Way To Finding The True Sense Of The Scriptures And Who Have Prevented Them From Falling Into The Grave Scandal Of Condemning A True Proposition.

The Greatest Wisdom Is To Get To Know Oneself.

Surely, God Could Have Caused Birds To Fly With Their Bones Made Of Solid Gold, With Their Veins Full Of Quicksilver, With Their Flesh Heavier Than Lead, And With Their Wings Exceedingly Small. He Did Not, And That Ought To Show Something. It Is Only In Order To Shield Your Ignorance That You Put The Lord At Every Turn To The Refuge Of A Miracle.