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 we laugh, or shall we cry?
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Nature is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, or cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operation are understandable to men. For that reason it appears that nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages which may have some different meaning beneath their words. For the Bible is not chained in every expression to conditions as strict as those which govern all physical effects; nor is God any less excellently revealed in Nature's actions than in the sacred statements of the Bible.
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Posted by: Marco SALSTyle
You burn me for what I preach: I don't deserve this ending. Also the church is wrong and it will make a mistake!
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Posted by: mor-joy
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.
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Posted by: Maria Schillaci
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The greatest sanctuary is knowing oneself.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Dream)
What we imagine must be either somthing we have already seen, or a composite of things or parts of things seen somewhere before.
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Posted by: Umberto Binetti
The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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