[copernicus] Did Not Ignore The Bible, But

The Surface Of The Moon Is Not Smooth, Uniform, And Precisely Spherical As A Great Number Of Philosophers Believe It To Be, But Is Uneven, Rough, And Full Of Cavities And Prominences, Being Not Unlike The Face Of The Earth, Relieved By Chains Of Mountains And Deep Valleys.

To Command Their Professors Of Astronomy To Refute Their Own Observations Is To Command Them Not To See What They Do See And Not To Understand What They Do Understand.

Mathematics Is The Language With Which God Has Written The Universe.

Philosophy Itself Cannot But Benefit From Our Disputes, For If Our Conceptions Prove True, New Achievements Will Be Made; If False, Their Refutation Will Further Confirm The Original Doctrines.

If Experiments Are Performed Thousands Of Times At All Seasons And In Every Place Without Once Producing The Effects Mentioned By Your Philosophers, Poets, And Historians, This Will Mean Nothing And We Must Believe Their Words Rather Than Our Own Eyes?