Anatomy of the Brain

To speak freely, whoever professes Philosophy and is found to think incorrectly about God, I consider that person to have bidden farewell not only to the authority of Religion, but also to reason, and to have divested himself of the Philosopher as well as the Christian. Therefore, I would wish all my work to be measured and approved not less by the pronouncements of piety and the Canons of the Church than by the standard of experience and that science which I serve: and I look up to and venerate [you] not only as the Maecenas of human arts, but also as the Primate and High Priest of divine ones, while I (with the due preface of all honor and observance) openly profess myself