Question

Read the following direct quotation:

"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, in Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.

Which option below plagiarizes the quote?


I have always refused to believe that the God who gave humans senses, reason, and intellect did not mean for us to use these abilities. Galileo (1615) felt the same way.


Many scientists of the time agreed with Galileo (1615) that human “sense, reason, and intellect” were gifts from God, but differed on the proper use of those powers.


I agree with Galileo (1615) that God would not have given us brains if he didn’t want us to use them.


In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), Galileo was blunt: "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." Not everyone agreed with that logic.

Answer 1

None of them. Each option either uses quotation marks for the exact wording and cites Galileo (D), or paraphrases the idea while attributing it to Galileo (A, B, C). Plagiarism would occur if the exact sentence were reused without quotation marks or any attribution.