Quotes About Tycho Brahe

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community.. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

Bill Peterson

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

Tycho Brahe

#6. Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

Nick Hornby

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

Tycho Brahe

#8. 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

#9. Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

Evangeline Walton

#10. Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Germaine Greer

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

Tycho Brahe

#13. In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#14. 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

#15. Didn't Frankenstein get married?"
"Did he?" said Eggy. "I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.

P.G. Wodehouse

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

Tycho Brahe

#17. Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

William S. Burroughs

#18. 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

#19. People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

Mickey Rourke

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

Tycho Brahe

#21. When God puts us in a holy holding pattern, it can feel like forever, but God doesn't hold us back to make us suffer. He does it to help us trust Him. He sees what lies ahead and knows what we need to be ready for it.

Lee W. Merrill

#22. Nadia looked ... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird.

Claudia Gray

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

Tycho Brahe

#24. Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

Wallace D. Wattles

#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. Other things." He filled her cup. "Jasmine," he said. "Tastes

Will Ferguson

#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. A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

George R R Martin

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

Tycho Brahe

#32. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#33. 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