" The Galileo saga is typically told as a conflict between science and religion. But in reality it was a conflict among Christians over the correct philosophy of nature. Was it Aristotle’s quality or Galileo’s quantity? Galileo’s victory was the triumph of the idea that the nature is constructed on a mathematical blueprint. "

― Nancy R. Pearcey , Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning