Nonetheless, It Moves.

Holy Writ Was Intended To Teach Men How To Go To Heaven Not How The Heavens Go.

It Vexes Me When They Would Constrain Science By The Authority Of The Scriptures, And Yet Do Not Consider Themselves Bound To Answer Reason And Experiment.

Long Experience Has Taught Me This About The Status Of Mankind With Regard To Matters Requiring Thought: The Less People Know And Understand About Them, The More Positively They Attempt To Argue Concerning Them, While On The Other Hand To Know And Understand A Multitude Of Things Renders Men Cautious In Passing Judgment Upon Anything New.

Nature . . . Is Inexorable And Immutable; She Never Transgresses The Laws Imposed Upon Her, Nor Cares A Whit Whether Her Abstruse Reasons And Methods Of Operations Are Understandable To Men.

The Hypothesis Is Pretty; Its Only Fault Is That It Is Neither Demonstrated Nor Demonstrable. Who Does Not See That This Is Purely Arbitrary Fiction That Puts Nothingness As Existing And Proposes Nothing More Than Simple Noncontradiciton?