1633: Catholic authorities forces Galileo to disavow his heliocentric theory of the Solar System

I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Galileo Galilei





I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei




The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei



The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei