For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.