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Alas! Your Dear Friend And Servant Galileo Has Been For The Last Month Hopelessly Blind; So That This Heaven, This Earth, This Universe, Which I By My Marvelous Discoveries And Clear Demonstrations Had Enlarged A Hundred Thousand Times Beyond The Belief Of The Wise Men Of Bygone Ages, Henceforward For Me Is Shrunk Into Such A Small Space As Is Filled By My Own Bodily Sensations.

Surely It Is A Great Thing To Increase The Numerous Host Of Fixed Stars Previously Visible To The Unaided Vision, Adding Countless More Which Have Never Before Been Seen, Exposing These Plainly To The Eye In Numbers Ten Times Exceeding The Old And Familiar Stars.

Measure What Is Measurable, And Make Measurable What Is Not So.

E Pur Si Muove. "albeit It Does Move". (that's What Galileo Purportedly Muttered After Torturers Forced Him To Recant His Theory That The Earth Orbits The Sun.)

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