The Sun, With All Those Planets Revolving

I, Galileo, Son Of The Late Vicenzo Galilei, Swear That I Never Said That The Prime Numbers Are Useless. What I Said Was That You Cannot Count Lunar Craters By Counting 2, 3, 5, 7.

But Some, Besides Allegiance To Their Original Error, Possess I Know Not What Fanciful Interest In Remaining Hostile Not So Much Toward The Things In Question As Toward Their Discoverer.

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.

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.

I Do Not Feel Obliged To Believe That The Same God Who Has Endowed Us With Senses, Reason, And Intellect Has Intended Us To Forego Their Use.