"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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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.

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