Brahe's Quotes

#1. Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

Charles Spurgeon

#2. 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

#3. Mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.

Glenn Greenwald

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

Tycho Brahe

#5. 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

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Sarah Williams

#8. What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Stephen Batchelor

#9. I don't know. I don't want to sell him." "All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

Mark Twain

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.

Francine Rivers

#14. If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

Miyamoto Musashi

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

Tycho Brahe

#16. 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

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

Tycho Brahe

#18. Ellis: "What's so funny?"
Skyla: You're funny," I say. "You look real scary. I bet your mom's proud, though." I don't know why I add that last bit, I just do.

Addison Moore

#19. There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

Charlie Munger

#20. Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Ann Leckie

#21. 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

#22. Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential -

Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

Tycho Brahe

#24. If only I had it in me to be all fierce, fearless and forthright instead of forever sprinkling my discourse with pitiful retractions, apologies and prevarications.

Anonymous

#25. 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

#26. Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.

Dallas Willard

#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. 'Sucker Punch' is a big girl power movie.

Carla Gugino

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

#31. You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.

Leigh Bardugo

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

#34. 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

#35. I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

Bill Owen

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

John Scalzi