I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
GG
Galileo GalileiLetter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)
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Italian astronomer and physicist often called the father of modern science. (1564-1642)
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