Friday, November 04, 2005

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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

1 Comments:

At 8:57 PM, Blogger Lev Gimelfarb said...

This was said in context of a struggle at the time when church did not want to accept scientific facts about a sun-centric solar system model. Back then it was believed that everything revolves around Earth, which is the center of the universe.

 

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