But 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.

[Ma che quell’istesso Dio che ci ha dotati di sensi, di discorso e d’intelletto, abbia voluto, posponendo l’uso di questi, darci con altro mezo le notizie che per quelli possiamo conseguire, sì che anco in quelle conclusioni naturali, che o dalle sensate esperienze o dalle necessarie dimostrazioni ci vengono esposte innanzi a gli occhi e all’intelletto, doviamo negare il senso e la ragione, non credo che sia necessario il crederlo.]

Galileo
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, polymath
Letter (1615) to Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany [tr. Drake (1957)]
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