It Has Always Seemed To Me Extreme

The Difficulties In The Study Of The Infinite Arise Because We Attempt, With Our Finite Minds, To Discuss The Infinite, Assigning To It Those Properties Which We Give To The Finite And Limited; But This... Is Wrong, For We Cannot Speak Of Infinite Quantities As Being The One Greater Or Less Than Or Equal To Another.

I Wish, My Dear Kepler, That We Could Have A Good Laugh Together At The Extraordinary Stupidity Of The Mob. What Do You Think Of The Foremost Philosophers Of This University? In Spite Of My Oft-repeated Efforts And Invitations, They Have Refused, With The Obstinacy Of A Glutted Adder, To Look At The Planets Or The Moon Or My Glass [telescope].

The Prohibition Of Science Would Be Contrary To The Bible, Which In Hundreds Of Places Teaches Us How The Greatness And The Glory Of God Shine Forth Marvelously In All His Works, And Is To Be Read Above All In The Open Book Of The Heavens.

You May Force Me To Say What You Wish; You May Revile Me For Saying What I Do. But It Moves.

And Who Can Doubt That It Will Lead To The Worst Disorders When Minds Created Free By God Are Compelled To Submit Slavishly To An Outside Will? When We Are Told To Deny Our Senses And Subject Them To The Whim Of Others? When People Devoid Of Whatsoever Competence Are Made Judges Over Experts And Are Granted Authority To Treat Them As They Please? These Are The Novelties Which Are Apt To Bring About The Ruin Of Commonwealths And The Subversion Of The State.