Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about th… - Galileo Galilei

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Indeed, I think we may concede to our Academician, without flattery, his claim that in the principle [principio, i. e., accelerated motion] laid down in this treatise he has established a new science dealing with a very old subject. Observing with what ease and clearness he deduces from a single principle the proofs of so many theorems, I wonder not a little how such a question escaped the attention of Archimedes, Apollonius, Euclid and so many other mathematicians and illustrious philosophers, especially since so many ponderous tomes have been devoted to the subject of motion. (Galileo referred to himself as the/our Academician in his dialogue)

I think that tastes, odors, colors, and so on . . .
reside in consciousness. Hence if the living
creature were removed, all these qualities
would be wiped away and annihilated.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.