The Milky Way Is Nothing Else But

I Think That In The Discussion Of Natural Problems We Ought To Begin Not With The Scriptures, But With Experiments, And Demonstrations.

Oh, My Dear Kepler, How I Wish That We Could Have One Hearty Laugh Together. Here, At Padua, Is The Principal Professor Of Philosophy, Whom I Have Repeatedly And Urgently Requested To Look At The Moon And Planets Through My Glass, [telescope] Which He Pertinaciously Refuses To Do. Why Are You Not Here? What Shouts Of Laughter We Should Have At This Glorious Folly! And To Hear The Professor Of Philosophy At Pisa Laboring Before The Grand Duke With Logical Arguments, As If With Magical Incantations, To Charm The New Planets Out Of The Sky.

The Milky Way Is Nothing Else But A Mass Of Innumerable Stars Planted Together In Clusters.

Names And Attributes Must Be Accommodated To The Essence Of Things, And Not The Essence To The Names, Since Things Come First And Names Afterwards.

There Are Those Who Reason Well, But They Are Greatly Outnumbered By Those Who Reason Badly.