"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall…"

"I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of admirable things unrevealed to bygone ages."

"I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the earth revolves around the sun."

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who gave us our senses, our reason, and our intellect, also intended us to forego their use."

"I do not hope for any relief, and that is because I have committed no crime."