They Who Depend Upon Manifest Observations Will

The Sun, With All Those Planets Revolving Around It And Dependent On It, Can Still Ripen A Bunch Of Grapes As If It Had Nothing Else In The Universe To Do.

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

Two Truths Cannot Contradict One Another.

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.

It Reveals To Me The Causes Of Many Natural Phenomena That Are Entirely Incomprehensible In The Light Of The Generally Accepted Hypotheses. To Refute The Latter I Collected Many Proofs, But I Do Not Publish Them ... I Would Dare To Publish My Speculations If There Were People Men Like You.