Brahe Quotes

#1. There was general agreement that Brahe was correct, until Gell-Man taught the squad to swear in Arabic.

John Scalzi

#2. Tycho Brahe clung to a lousy idea, Hans. That's all it was. People like us - you must know this by now - we can't do that. We know damn well when we're right. We know a long time before anyone else even suspects it." He cleared his throat. "Or when we're wrong. That's how we live. That's how we die.

Ethan Canin

#3. At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cocksuckers, because it got old pretty goddamn quick.

John Scalzi

#4. I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal ... like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#5. Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

Johannes Kepler

#6. 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.

Tycho Brahe

#7. It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo.

Steve Martin

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

Tycho Brahe

#9. Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.

Iain Pears

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

Tycho Brahe

#11. And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.

Sarah Williams

#12. I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#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.

Tycho Brahe

#14. I don't play golf, and I'm not into horse racing.

Lloyd Dorfman

#15. Life was always a risk. Everything about it.

Deanna Roy

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

#18. Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

James Ellis

#19. 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.

Tycho Brahe

#20. I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

Mike Shinoda

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

Tycho Brahe

#22. He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

Douglas William Jerrold

#23. I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.

John R. Rice

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

#27. 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.

Tycho Brahe

#28. Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.

Theodore Roosevelt

#29. 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.

Tycho Brahe

#30. Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Tycho Brahe

#32. 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.

Tycho Brahe