If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.
Source: From an Internet collection of quotations.
-- Nicolas Copernicus, (Feb 19 1473-1543), Polish astronomer; He was first to propose that planets revolved around the sun; wrote Mathematics of a Heliocentric Solar System, 1543.