Galileo Galilei Quote

I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits, that have received and held it to be true, and with the sprightliness of their judgments offered such violence to their own senses, as that they have been able to prefer that which their reason dictated to them, to that which sensible experiments represented most manifestly to the contrary.... I cannot find any bounds for my admiration, how that reason was able in Aristarchus and Copernicus, to commit such a rape on their senses, as in despite thereof to make herself mistress of their credulity.


Thomas Salusbury translation (1661) p. 301 as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925) - Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)


I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits, that have received and held it to be true, and with the sprightliness of their...

I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits, that have received and held it to be true, and with the sprightliness of their...

I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits, that have received and held it to be true, and with the sprightliness of their...

I cannot sufficiently admire the eminence of those men's wits, that have received and held it to be true, and with the sprightliness of their...