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Quote by Galileo Galilei
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of

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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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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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. – Galileo Galilei

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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