It Is Surely Harmful To

Holy Scripture Could Never Lie Or Err...its Decrees Are Of Absolute And Inviolable Truth.

It Reveals To Me The Causes Of Many Natural Phenomena That Are Entirely Incomprehensible In The Light Of The Generally Accepted Hypotheses. To Refute The Latter I Collected Many Proofs, But I Do Not Publish Them ... I Would Dare To Publish My Speculations If There Were People Men Like You.

It Was Granted To Me Alone To Discover All The New Phenomena In The Sky And Nothing To Anybody Else. This Is The Truth Which Neither Envy Nor Malice Can Supress.

God Is Known By Nature In His Works, And By Doctrine In His Revealed Word.

I Am Certainly Interested In A Tribunal In Which, For Having Used My Reason, I Was Deemed Little Less Than A Heretic. Who Knows But Men Will Reduce Me From The Profession Of A Philosopher To That Of Historian Of The Inquisition!