"We hereby find Galileo guilty of heresy on the grounds for having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture;

"We hereby find Galileo guilty of heresy on the grounds for having held and believed a doctrine which is false and contrary to the divine and Holy Scripture;

that the sun is the center of the world and does not move from east to west, and the earth moves and is not the center of the world, and that one may hold and defend as probable an opinion after it has been declared defined contrary to the Holy Scripture."

Galileo's protest, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use."

June 1633, The Inquisition