I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

The number of the fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.

See now the power of truth.

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.

It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words.

I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.