The earth, in fair and grateful exchange, pays back to the moon an illumination similar to that which it receives from her throughout nearly all the darkest gloom of the night.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

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

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.