Nonetheless, It Moves.

It Has Always Seemed To Me Extreme Presumptuousness On The Part Of Those Who Want To Make Human Ability The Measure Of What Nature Can And Knows How To Do, Since, When One Comes Down To It, There Is Not One Effect In Nature, No Matter How Small, That Even The Most Speculative Minds Can Fully Understand.

In The Sciences, The Authority Of Thousands Of Opinions Is Not Worth As Much As One Tiny Spark Of Reason In An Individual Man.

To Be Humane, We Must Ever Be Ready To Pronounce That Wise, Ingenious And Modest Statement 'i Do Not Know'.

There Are Those Who Reason Well, But They Are Greatly Outnumbered By Those Who Reason Badly.

I Have Been Judged Vehemently Suspect Of Heresy, That Is, Of Having Held And Believed That The Sun In The Centre Of The Universe And Immoveable, And That The Earth Is Not At The Center Of Same, And That It Does Move. Wishing However, To Remove From The Minds Of Your Eminences And All Faithful Christians This Vehement Suspicion Reasonably Conceived Against Me, I Abjure With A Sincere Heart And Unfeigned Faith, I Curse And Detest The Said Errors And Heresies, And Generally All And Every Error, Heresy, And Sect Contrary To The Holy Catholic Church. (quoted In Shea And Artigas 194)