If You Could See The

Surely It Is A Great Thing To Increase The Numerous Host Of Fixed Stars Previously Visible To The Unaided Vision, Adding Countless More Which Have Never Before Been Seen, Exposing These Plainly To The Eye In Numbers Ten Times Exceeding The Old And Familiar Stars.

In My Studies Of Astronomy And Philosophy I Hold This Opinion About The Universe, That The Sun Remains Fixed In The Centre Of The Circle Of Heavenly Bodies, Without Changing Its Place; And The Earth, Turning Upon Itself, Moves Round The Sun.

I Do Not Think It Is Necessary To Believe That The Same God Who Has Given Us Our Senses, Reason, And Intelligence Wished Us To Abandon Their Use, Giving Us By Some Other Means The Information That We Could Gain Through Them.

You Cannot Teach A Person Something He Does Not Already Know, You Can Only Bring What He Does Know To His Awareness.

If You Could See The Earth Illuminated When You Were In A Place As Dark As Night, It Would Look To You More Splendid Than The Moon.