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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1061 – “A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family’s love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.”

-André Maurois

I wish you all a Merry Christmas, may your families not irritate you much!

939 – “You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”

-Tina Fey [Attributed]

927 – “There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.”

-Charles Darwin

835 – “[A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish that relationship on an intelligible basis. This can only be done … by appealing to two qualities which are at the bottom of all knowledge, curiosity and observation. They are born with us, every child naturally develops them, and it is the duty of the teacher to direct them to proper ends.”

–Mandell Creighton [See Source for full Context]

It is National Teachers Day, so thank an educator!

568 – “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination.”

–Albert Einstein [Attributed, likely Apocryphal]

559 – “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change.”

–Leon C Megginson [See Source Notes]

395 – “Institutions like ours, in which all power is derived directly from the people, must depend mainly upon their intelligence, patriotism, and industry.”

–Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States of America

306 – “I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. To talk for hours about what’s really important in life.”

–anonymous

293 – “The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.”

–Jaggi Vasudev