Creative Quotations from Galileo (1564-1642)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Galileo
(1564-1642) born on Feb 15

Italian "physicist, astronomer". "He developed the scientific method and established mechanics as a science; invented the astronomical telescope, 1609; discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons."

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Doubt is the father of invention.

"Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty."

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A:	"In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995."
N:	From an Internet collection of quotations.
K:	"In "12,000 Religious Quotations," by Frank S. Mead, 1989."