Tycho Brahe Quotes

#1. It's easy to see from commercials the sorts of activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I'm fairly certain that American manhood is vague, internally contradictory and largely nonsensical.

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#2. May I not seem to have lived in vain.

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#3. I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor ... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

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#4. And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

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#5. Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen ... Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

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#6. It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

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#7. Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

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#8. So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

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#9. When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

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#10. Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

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#11. There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

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#12. An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

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#13. When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

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#14. And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

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#15. The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

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