It Is Surely Harmful To Souls To

Nothing Can Be Taught To A Man, Only It's Possibly To Help Him To Discover It Inside.

Oh, My Dear Kepler, How I Wish That We Could Have One Hearty Laugh Together. Here, At Padua, Is The Principal Professor Of Philosophy, Whom I Have Repeatedly And Urgently Requested To Look At The Moon And Planets Through My Glass, [telescope] Which He Pertinaciously Refuses To Do. Why Are You Not Here? What Shouts Of Laughter We Should Have At This Glorious Folly! And To Hear The Professor Of Philosophy At Pisa Laboring Before The Grand Duke With Logical Arguments, As If With Magical Incantations, To Charm The New Planets Out Of The Sky.

Facts Which At First Seem Improbable Will, Even On Scant Explanation, Drop The Cloak Which Has Hidden Them And Stand Forth In Naked And Simple Beauty.

I Have Been Judged Vehemently Suspect Of Heresy, That Is, Of Having Held And Believed That The Sun In The Centre Of The Universe And Immoveable, And That The Earth Is Not At The Center Of Same, And That It Does Move. Wishing However, To Remove From The Minds Of Your Eminences And All Faithful Christians This Vehement Suspicion Reasonably Conceived Against Me, I Abjure With A Sincere Heart And Unfeigned Faith, I Curse And Detest The Said Errors And Heresies, And Generally All And Every Error, Heresy, And Sect Contrary To The Holy Catholic Church. (quoted In Shea And Artigas 194)

Where The Senses Fail Us, Reason Must Step In.