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Quotation from Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day) by Galileo Galilei
“But that that self same God who hath indued us with Senses, Discourse, and Understanding hath intended, laying aside the use of these, to give the knowledg of those things by other means, which we may attain by these”
Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661)
The opening of Galileo's argument that God does not ask human beings to abandon sense and reason in natural questions.
Citation: "But that that self same God who hath indued us with Senses, Discourse, and Understanding hath intended, laying aside the use of these, to give the knowledg of those things by other means, which we may attain by these" — Galileo Galilei, Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, trans. Thomas Salusbury (1661). (id galileo-selected-writings-q5)
Portrait: Galileo.arp.300pix, Justus Sustermans, Public domain.
