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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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The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes. – Galileo Galilei

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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. – 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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The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science. – Werner Heisenberg

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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. – Aleister Crowley

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