1100 – Galileo on God and Science

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. He would not require us to deny sense and reason in physical matters which are set before our eyes and minds by direct experience or necessary demonstrations.”

-Galileo Galilei

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1075 – “In me is the sky, in me lies the earth.”

-Kuvempu [Attributed]

921 – “She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thought that wander off the edge of the world.”

-Joanne Harris

817 – “Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.”

–Kenneth Tynan