But, Because My Private Lectures And Domestic

Facts Which At First Seem Improbable Will, Even On Scant Explanation, Drop The Cloak Which Has Hidden Them And Stand Forth In Naked And Simple Beauty.

That Sculpture Is More Admirable Than Painting For The Reason That It Contains Relief And Painting Does Not Is Completely False. ... Rather, How Much More Admirable The Painting Must Be Considered, If Having No Relief At All, It Appears To Have As Much As Sculpture!

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)

Mathematics Is The Key And Door To The Sciences.

Surely, God Could Have Caused Birds To Fly With Their Bones Made Of Solid Gold, With Their Veins Full Of Quicksilver, With Their Flesh Heavier Than Lead, And With Their Wings Exceedingly Small. He Did Not, And That Ought To Show Something. It Is Only In Order To Shield Your Ignorance That You Put The Lord At Every Turn To The Refuge Of A Miracle.