In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei
The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes. – Galileo Galilei
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei