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.

Galileo Galilei
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More Quotes By Galileo Galilei
  1. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

  2. See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  3. 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.

  4. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  5. By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

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