Top 37 Tycho 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.

Tycho Brahe

#2. What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.

Joel Kinnaman

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

Tycho Brahe

#4. Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Edward Tufte

#5. 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

#6. The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.

Fritz Nordengren

#7. I remember it was a damn funny thing for a stranger to say," Stephen said. "Old Ones, we Old Ones. With capital letters
you could *hear* them.

Susan Cooper

#8. 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

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

Tycho Brahe

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

Tycho Brahe

#11. We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet.

Thomas Menino

#12. Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho

Aaron Allston

#13. There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Sinclair Lewis

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

Tycho Brahe

#15. I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?"
"Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us."
Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. "When all else fails, just do that.

Aaron Allston

#16. The absurd ... the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. I'm going to Tycho Station. There's someone there I ... trust." "Trust?" "Don't actively distrust." "Naomi think it's the right thing?" "I don't know. I didn't ask her. But I think so." "Close enough," Miller said.

James S.A. Corey

#18. Hey, he's not using a holster," I said, glancing at Alex's on the dresser. He laughed out loud. "Yeah, I guess he must want something shooting off. It'd be so great if these things were true to life - the next scene would show him at hospital like, clutching himself in agony."'Angel - L.A.Weatherly

L.A. Weatherly

#19. I mean, I'm humble ... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

Lance Gross

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

Tycho Brahe

#21. At least you can say you were in on the last days of Morocco," he told her. "How's your tea? Finished? I think we ought to be going.

Paul Bowles

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.

Zack Snyder

#26. I'll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one.

Franz Kafka

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

Tycho Brahe

#28. 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

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

Tycho Brahe

#30. All I can tell you is what I see at home- a lot of lessons learned from '86. That, 'OK, we'll go one-time amnesty and after that we'll really be good.' But nobody believes it this time, nobody believes it.

Michael C. Burgess

#31. 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

#32. That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Aaron Allston

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

Tycho Brahe

#34. I'm an engineer," Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. "Did eight years on Tycho Station! I'm not going to get used like a fucking technician.

James S.A. Corey

#35. 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

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

Tycho Brahe

#37. shares available, market cap, share price,

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