Originally Posted by lotusmike

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
- Cardinal Bellarmino 1615, during the trial of Galileo

"The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church."
- Ferdinand Magellan

"Religions have the arrogance to tell nature what it is. Science, by contrast, has the grace to ask."
- Andrew Lias