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I Think That In The Discussion Of Natural Problems We Ought To Begin Not With The Scriptures, But With Experiments, And Demonstrations.

I Have Never Met A Man So Ignorant That I Couldn't Learn Something From Him.

The Earth, In Fair And Grateful Exchange, Pays Back To The Moon An Illumination Similar To That Which It Receives From Her Throughout Nearly All The Darkest Gloom Of The Night.

But Of All Other Stupendous Inventions, What Sublimity Of Mind Must Have Been His Who Conceived How To Communicate His Most Secret Thoughts To Any Other Person, Though Very Far Distant Either In Time Or Place? And With No Greater Difficulty Than The Various Arrangement Of Two Dozen Little Signs Upon Paper? Let This Be The Seal Of All The Admirable Inventions Of Man.

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.