The error of the senses is not less, but rather greater, if we try to correct them by reason without experience.
Father of modern observational astronomy
Emphasizing the importance of empirical observation.
c. 1600s
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"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."
Strange & Unusual"The senses, though they are sometimes deceived, are not always so."
Humorous"I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of admirable things unrevealed to bygone ages."
Strange & Unusual"It is not necessary to examine all the arguments against a position, but only the strongest."
Humorous"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought not to begin at the authority of places of Scripture, but at sensible experiments and necessary demonstrations."
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