“Due to the genius and labours of Newton almost all the problems presented by the motions of the planets had been mastered. Newton had shown for all time that these motions could be completely accounted for if it were assumed that the same laws of nature, and in particular gravity, operated in the celestial realm as well as in the terrestrial. Although the old Aristotelian distinction between the corrupt earth and the incorruptible heavens was thus finally abandoned, the stellar realm still lay beyond the range of scientific investigation. The natural step, taken by Digges and Bruno, of likening the stars to the sun and scattering them throughout space was still only a step of the imagination.”
“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have n...”
Giordano Bruno
“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
Giordano Bruno
“Chi vuole che la quaresima gli paia corta, si faccia debito per pagare a Pasqua.”
Giordano Bruno
“Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato.”
Giordano Bruno
“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam.”
Giordano Bruno