Two Truths Cannot Contradict One Another.

I Truly Believe The Book Of Philosophy To Be That Which Stands Perpetually Open Before Our Eyes, Though Since It Is Written In Characters Different From Those Of Our Alphabet It Cannot Be Read By Everyone.

The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after Observing The Medicaean Plants Several Times With Me ... Has Now Invited Me To Attach Myself To Him With The Annual Salary Of One Thousand Florins, And With The Title Of Philosopher And Principal Mathematicial To His Highness; Without The Duties Of Office To Perform, But With The Most Complete Leisure; So That I Can Complete My Treatises.

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"?

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.)

It Was Granted To Me Alone To Discover All The New Phenomena In The Sky And Nothing To Anybody Else. This Is The Truth Which Neither Envy Nor Malice Can Supress.