WHAT THEY SAID AND BELIEVED : GALILEO
GALILEO courtesy web
"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 was born in Pisa. During his lifetime he revealed his telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter. He used his observations to argue in favour of the sun-centered theory of the universe, against the earth-centered Aristotelian theories.
Here in the above quote he simply reflacts his mind. Only living creature in the universe that has been endowed with the gracious gift of reason is the human. If we avoide using the same reason in our life, we are not better than any other creatures.
In the time of Galileo they were against the reason in the matter of scientific inventions. People believed that the earth was flat. Galileo objected to it by providing proofs for the same. In the time of diehard religious fanatics, it was nothing more than a challenge of life and death for him.
But he used his reason, sense and the intellect the God had given to him.
That is his message that use what the almighty God has given to you.
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