The Book Of Nature Is

Oh, My Dear Kepler, How I Wish That We Could Have One Hearty Laugh Together. Here, At Padua, Is The Principal Professor Of Philosophy, Whom I Have Repeatedly And Urgently Requested To Look At The Moon And Planets Through My Glass, [telescope] Which He Pertinaciously Refuses To Do. Why Are You Not Here? What Shouts Of Laughter We Should Have At This Glorious Folly! And To Hear The Professor Of Philosophy At Pisa Laboring Before The Grand Duke With Logical Arguments, As If With Magical Incantations, To Charm The New Planets Out Of The Sky.

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.

To Command Their Professors Of Astronomy To Refute Their Own Observations Is To Command Them Not To See What They Do See And Not To Understand What They Do Understand.

All Truths Are Easy To Understand Once They Are Discovered; The Point Is To Discover Them.

It Is Necessary For The Bible, In Order To Be Accommodated To The Understanding Of Every Man, To Speak Many Things Which Appear To Differ From The Absolute Truth So Far As The Bare Meaning Of The Words Is Concerned.