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Tag: Galileo Galilei

(1564 – 1642) Astronomer

Use it or lose it

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 29, 2021Categories individualism, knowledgeTags Galileo Galilei

Scientific authority

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 13, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Galileo Galilei

Discovering truths

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 8, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories truthTags Galileo Galilei

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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