Nonetheless, It Moves.

Surely It Is A Great Thing To Increase The Numerous Host Of Fixed Stars Previously Visible To The Unaided Vision, Adding Countless More Which Have Never Before Been Seen, Exposing These Plainly To The Eye In Numbers Ten Times Exceeding The Old And Familiar Stars.

The Deeper I Go In Considering The Vanities Of Popular Reasoning, The Lighter And More Foolish I Find Them. What Greater Stupidity Can Be Imagined Than That Of Calling Jewels, Silver, And Gold "precious," And Earth And Soil "base"?

But, Because My Private Lectures And Domestic Pupils Are A Great Hinderance And Intteruption Of My Studies, I Wish To Live Entirely Exempt From The Former, And In Great Measure From The Latter. ... In Short, I Should Wish To Gain My Bread From My Writings.

I Would Beg The Wise And Learned Fathers [of The Church] To Consider With All Diligence The Difference Which Exists Between Matters Of Mere Opinion And Matters Of Demonstration.

The Doctrine That The Earth Is Neither The Center Of The Universe Nor Immovable, But Moves Even With A Daily Rotation, Is Absurd, And Both Philosophically And Theologically False, And At The Least An Error Of Faith.