Nature's Great Book Is Written

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.

The Deeper I Go In Considering The Vanities Of Popular Reasoning, The Lighter And More Foolish I Find Them. What Greater Stupidity Can Be Imagined Than That Of Calling Jewels, Silver, And Gold "precious," And Earth And Soil "base"?

For My Part I Consider The Earth Very Noble And Admirable Precisely Because Of The Diverse Alterations, Changes, Generations, Etc. That Occur In It Incessantly.

It Vexes Me When They Would Constrain Science By The Authority Of The Scriptures, And Yet Do Not Consider Themselves Bound To Answer Reason And Experiment.

Vision, I Say, Is Related To Light Itself. But Of This Sensation And The Things Pertaining To It, I Pretend To Understand But Little; And Since Even A Long Time Would Not Suffice To Explain That Trifle, Or Even To Hint At An Explanation, I Pass Over This In Silence.