I Do Not Feel Obliged To Believe

Holy Writ Was Intended To Teach Men How To Go To Heaven Not How The Heavens Go.

Philosophy Is Written In That Great Book Which Ever Lies Before Our Eyes — I Mean The Universe — But We Cannot Understand It If We Do Not First Learn The Language And Grasp The Symbols, In Which It Is Written.

I Therefore Concluded, And Decided Unhesitatingly, That There Are Three Stars In The Heavens Moving About Jupiter, As Venus And Mercury About The Sun; Which At Length Was Established As Clear As Daylight By Numerous Other Observations.

In Time You May Discover Everything That Can Be Discovered, And Still Your Progress Will Only Be Progress Away From Humanity. The Distance Between You And Them Can One Day Become So Great That Your Joyous Cry Over Some New Gain Could Be Answered By An Universal Shriek Of Horror.

When The Moon Is Ninety Degrees Away From The Sun It Sees But Half The Earth Illuminated (the Western Half). For The Other (the Eastern Half) Is Enveloped In Night. Hence The Moon Itself Is Illuminated Less Brightly From The Earth, And As A Result Its Secondary Light Appears Fainter To Us.