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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 forego their use.
  -- Galileo Galilei...
• 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...
• It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do
  ince, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand....
• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. -- Garrison Keillo
• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. -- Garrison Keillo
• It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. -- Galileo Galilei
• When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)...
• I think I agree with the old lady who said if God had intended us to fly he would never have given us the railways.
  -- Michael Flande...