Galileo Galilei
  • Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

  • 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.

  • The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

  • 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.

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