Alas! Your Dear Friend And Servant Galileo

I Have Been Judged Vehemently Suspect Of Heresy, That Is, Of Having Held And Believed That The Sun In The Centre Of The Universe And Immoveable, And That The Earth Is Not At The Center Of Same, And That It Does Move. Wishing However, To Remove From The Minds Of Your Eminences And All Faithful Christians This Vehement Suspicion Reasonably Conceived Against Me, I Abjure With A Sincere Heart And Unfeigned Faith, I Curse And Detest The Said Errors And Heresies, And Generally All And Every Error, Heresy, And Sect Contrary To The Holy Catholic Church. (quoted In Shea And Artigas 194)

It Is A Beautiful And Delightful Sight To Behold The Body Of The Moon.

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.

It Seems To Me That It Was Well Said By Madama Serenissima, And Insisted On By Your Reverence, That The Holy Scripture Cannot Err, And That The Decrees Therein Contained Are Absolutely True And Inviolable. But I Should Have In Your Place Added That, Though Scripture Cannot Err, Its Expounders And Interpreters Are Liable To Err In Many Ways; And One Error In Particular Would Be Most Grave And Most Frequent, If We Always Stopped Short At The Literal Signification Of The Words.

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.