What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh. Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.
Isaac Newton
Mystery
If the ancient churches,
If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.
Isaac Newton
Tis the temper of
‘Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.
Isaac Newton
Spots are on the
Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself. Galileo Galilei
Eyesight should learn from
Eyesight should learn from reason.
Johannes Kepler
Astronomy would not provide
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
Johannes Kepler
There will certainly be
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight….Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.
Johannes Kepler
When I had satisfied
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.
Tycho Brahe