Showing A Greater Fondness For Their Own

Their Vain Presumption Of Knowing All Can Take Beginning Solely From Their Never Having Known Anything; For If One Has But Once Experienced The Perfect Knowledge Of One Thing, And Truly Tasted What It Is To Know, He Shall Perceive That Of Infinite Other Conclusions He Understands Not So Much As One.

Showing A Greater Fondness For Their Own Opinions Than For Truth, They Sought To Deny And Disprove The New Things Which, If They Had Cared To Look For Themselves, Their Own Senses Would Have Demonstrated To Them.

But Let Us Remember That We Are Dealing With Infinities And Indivisibles Both Of Which Transcend Our Finite Understanding, The Former On Account Of Their Magnitude, The Latter Because Of Their Smallness.

[copernicus] Did Not Ignore The Bible, But He Knew Very Well That If His Doctrine Were Proved, Then It Could Not Contradict The Scriptures When They Were Rightly Understood.

Nothing Occurs Contrary To Nature Except The Impossible, And That Never Occurs.