Galileo

"Wine is sunshine held together by water."
Galileo


"The Galileo Affair"
(Galileo's Collision Course With The Catholic Church)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

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Galileo - Wikiquote: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
  • Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (1638); Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche, intorno à due nuove scienze, as translated by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio (1914)

• Light held together by moisture.
  • His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5

• 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.
  • As quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 92
  • Variant translation: Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, because things came first, and their names subsequently.

• [Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

"Wine is sunshine held together by water."
Galileo