Such difficulties, however, do not confront us if we attribute motion to the earth--such a small, insignificant body in comparison with the whole universe, and which for that very reason cannot exercise any power over the latter.
"Simplicio.

You support your arguments throughout, it seems to me, on the greater ease and simplicity with which the said effects are produced.

You mean that as a cause the motion of the earth alone is just as satisfactory as the motion of all the rest of the universe with the exception of the earth; you hold the actual event to be much easier in the former case than in the latter.

For the ruler of the universe, however, whose might is infinite, it is no less easy to move the universe than the earth or a straw balm.

But if his power is infinite, why should not a greater, rather than a very small, part of it be revealed to me?
"Salviati.