“The city was laid out as a square, its length equal to its breadth. The angel measured the city with a rod and it was 12,000 stadia in length and breadth and height. He measured its wall, and this was 144 cubits [...]
Science
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. 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 Galilei































