Where The Senses Fail Us, Reason Must

There Are Those Who Reason Well, But They Are Greatly Outnumbered By Those Who Reason Badly.

My Dear Kepler, What Would You Say Of The Learned Here, Who, Replete With The Pertinacity Of The Asp, Have Steadfastly Refused To Cast A Glance Through The Telescope? What Shall We Make Of This? Shall We Laugh, Or Shall We Cry?

But Some, Besides Allegiance To Their Original Error, Possess I Know Not What Fanciful Interest In Remaining Hostile Not So Much Toward The Things In Question As Toward Their Discoverer.

It Has Always Seemed To Me Extreme Presumptuousness On The Part Of Those Who Want To Make Human Ability The Measure Of What Nature Can And Knows How To Do, Since, When One Comes Down To It, There Is Not One Effect In Nature, No Matter How Small, That Even The Most Speculative Minds Can Fully Understand.

The Number Of The Fixed Stars Which Observers Have Been Able To See Without Artificial Powers Of Sight Up To This Day Can Be Counted. It Is Therefore Decidedly A Great Feat To Add To Their Number, And To Set Distinctly Before The Eyes Other Stars In Myriads, Which Have Never Been Seen Before, And Which Surpass The Old, Previously Known Stars In Number More Than Ten Times.