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It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

Ptolemy

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night’s starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
PTOLEMY

Earth Heaven Immortal Live Moments Myself Night Stand Touch
I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me.
PTOLEMY

Interest Material Myself Preference
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.
PTOLEMY

Draw Envelope Evidence Heaven Nature
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials.
PTOLEMY

Artist Inheritance Inspirational Material Quality Raw Relate Value Work
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
PTOLEMY

Enemy Friendship Happiness Man Need Pain
It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.
PTOLEMY

Courage Honesty Report Science System Understand
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
PTOLEMY

Fortune Material Property Soul
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
PTOLEMY

Follow Leadership Life Place
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
PTOLEMY

Born Day Earth Happiness Myself Stars Touch
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.
PTOLEMY

Creature Day Food God Mortal Search
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
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Easy General Hard Man

It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

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It’s only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

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