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.
Galileo Galilei
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Science is not a matter of consensus, as the histories of Galileo, Copernicus, Pasteur, Einstein and... JAMES SCHLESINGER All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. -Galileo... GALILEO GALILEI A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whe... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Galileo is made in Europe by Europeans. If the Americans want to scramble GPS, they can do it whenev... FRANCO BONACINA It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human abil... GALILEO GALILEI Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men JOHN CALVIN Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men... JOHN CALVIN Galileo, yet men turn around women! LJUPKA CVETANOVA We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton... DAVID BENTLEY HART I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei. GALILEO GALILEI I learned an important lesson: Never take the obvious for granted. Once upon a time, it was so obvio... V.S. RAMACHANDRAN When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t... GARY F EVANS... The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. THOMAS HUXLEY Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists. ROLAND JOFFE And some of our American shareholders asked us if we would consider it and we certainly saw no reaso... CLIVE BEDDOE Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. If one asks the whence deriv... ALBERT EINSTEIN The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is th... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I do not by any means believe the initiative, the referendum, and the recall are the panacea for all... HIRAM JOHNSON I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such argume... ALAN TURING And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief p... BIBLE Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. EMILY BRONTE I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your fa... JOHN BYTHEWAY Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. ADAM CLARKE Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or wi... ETHAN ALLEN I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human ... ALBERT EINSTEIN I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Mis-information is rampant in this great age of mass-information. While we have more access to learn... DAVID D. FLOWERS The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated a... ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa... JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is alwa... JAMES A. FROUDE If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; ... GEORGE WHITEFIELD There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are... LOUIS PASTEUR Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which ... STEPHEN HAWKING I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. EMILY BRONTE Why do people kill themselves? I think they do it when they can no longer find a reason t... MARY BETH MILLER Each member of the Lord's body is directly connected and answers only to the Lord Jesus as the Head. HENRY HON . . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of NEIL POSTMAN Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 These things I did not see by the help of man,... GEORGE FOX I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so SAINT AUGUSTINE Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in th... WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155 We may search so far, and reason so long of fa... JOHN DONNE People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ... WILLIAM MAXWELL When science fails to appreciate the authority of God failure becomes inevitable ETC WANYANWU We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try ... CARL SAGAN I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of... MAHATMA GANDHI We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because ... RICH MULLINS My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women,... CHRISTINE DE PIZAN That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me... CHARLES BABBAGE Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness?... ALBERT EINSTEIN It is not REASON vs FAITH, it is REASON vs NOTHING. And the answer is NOTHING! EPHDAN The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than wi... ALICE MILLER Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it. DEYTH BANGER Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember ans... DAG HAMMARSKJOLD until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins an... NEIL POSTMAN The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are n... SETH SHOSTAK Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fa... LORD KELVIN Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... BUDDHA Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply becau... GAUTAMA BUDDHA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we could relate to the dynamics of
things instead of the things themselves,
I wonder if it would ... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th... MICHAEL KORDA Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does n... ABHIJIT NASKAR Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Calculus was not math. It was a fucking science experiment gone wrong. ABBI GLINES In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptati... FULTON J. SHEEN And they gazed at themselves in it, side by side and hand in hand, and they beheld neither gods nor ... LAINI TAYLOR When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have b... THOMAS JEFFERSON Those who read the Scriptures and judge for themselves, not resting satisfied with the perverted app... LUCRETIA MOTT Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not ... URSULA K. LE GUIN Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in man... SEAN MACBRIDE Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say u... BIBLE People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and fu... GRETCHEN RUBIN One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we... BARACK OBAMA Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some ... GEORGE M. WHITESIDES To lovers out there.... Pregnancy is the main reason why most couples are married today. ... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS For (Martin) Luther, the sola of "Sola Scriptura" was inseparably related to the Scriptures' unique ... R. C. SPROUL We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning th... LLOYD ALEXANDER We consider it as a provocation by the Macedonian forces so that they could present themselves as th... ALI AHMETI And when they do it, your honor, the answer of the students is, we don't believe you. E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and the... ABDEL ATWAN He told me that bin Laden is saying to President Clinton that the battle has not started yet and the... ABDEL BARI ATWAN I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be. GEORGE MULLER 6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give re... GERMANY KENT The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created ... TIM MAUDLIN A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ... STEVEN BIKO for me, to say that I am yet to begin gives me the real reason not to look back and see what I have ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
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