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| Galileo Galilei
... nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages. Doubt is the father of invention. 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. I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them. I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone. In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth that humble reasoning of a single individual. It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines. 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. You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. |
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