Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus, also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel Serveto, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve, was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation, as discussed in Christianismi Restitutio. He was a polymath versed in many sciences: mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, geography, human anatomy, medicine and pharmacology, as well as jurisprudence, translation, poetry and the scholarly study of the Bible in its original languages. He is renowned in...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 September 1511
CountrySpain
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other's error and nobody discerns his own.
To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.
I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light.
Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.
No one with a body full of aliments can have a luminous soul and other intellectual faculties. It is necessary to care for the body if we wish the spirit to function normally.
Truly, the custom amongst Hispanic women of piercing their lobes with a golden or silver ring to which they hang, most of the times, a precious stone.
Do not be surprised if I adore as God what you called humanity, since you talked of humanity as if it was empty of spirit and you think in the flesh according to the flesh.
Jesus, Son of the Eternal God, have mercy on me.
I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.
God gave us the mind so that we can know him.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.