Holy Scripture Could Never Lie

The Vain Presumption Of Understanding Everything Can Have No Other Basis Than Never Having Understood Anything. For Anyone Who Had Ever Experienced Just Once The Perfect Understanding Of One Single Thing, And Had Truly Tasted How Knowledge Is Accomplished, Would Recognize That Of The Infinity Of Other Truths He Understands Nothing.

In Questions Of Science, The Authority Of A Thousand Is Not Worth The Humble Reasoning Of A Single Individual.

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.

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.

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.