Where The Senses Fail Us, Reason Must

I Would Say Here Something That Was Heard From An Ecclesiastic Of The Most Eminent Degree: The Intention Of The Holy Spirit Is To Teach Us How One Goes To Heaven, Not How The Heavens Go.

The Laws Of Nature Are Written In The Language Of Mathematics...the Symbols Are Triangles, Circles And Other Geometrical Figures, Without Whose Help It Is Impossible To Comprehend A Single Word.

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.

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

Showing A Greater Fondness For Their Own Opinions Than For Truth, They Sought To Deny And Disprove The New Things Which, If They Had Cared To Look For Themselves, Their Own Senses Would Have Demonstrated To Them.