Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

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

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.