Galileo Galilei — "The universe is an immense, eternal, and infinite work, which can be understood …"

"The greater the number of people who believe a proposition, the more likely it is to be false."

"The motion of the earth is a fact, not a theory."

"It is a false and dangerous opinion that the authority of Scripture should be preferred to the authority of reason."

"The two books from which I draw my knowledge are the book of the created world and the book of the Holy Scripture."

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought not to begin at the authority of places of Scripture, but at sensible experiments and necessary demonstrations."