"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
― Galileo Galilei
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― Galileo Galilei
More From Galileo Galilei
- "Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."
- "It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
- "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
More In God
- "The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me – though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing."― Mariel Hemingway
- "You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other."― Jimmy Carter
- "We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."― Henry Ward Beecher