"Is there any physicist here that would stand up and defend the proposition that only the gravitation and inertia are in action in the solar system? but of all my heresies, this was the greatest..."

"And let me ask you another question: Is the theory of Uniformitarianism, which means that nothing that happens, what happened in the past, could have happened if it doesn't happen today? On this is built the modern Geology, on this is built the modern Astronomy, on this is built the modern biology and the theory of evolution..."

"And so, it is only wishful thinking that we are living in a safe, never perturbed solar system... on a safe, never perturbed Earth."