“So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.”

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.

Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

So that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere).

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.

From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho’s supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself.

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.

That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people.

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

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

One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

The star [Tycho’s supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

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

It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted.

All language is but a poor translation.

The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.

Move or die is the language of our Maker in the constitution of our bodies.

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Spanish is such an important language globally.

So what do we say to each other is the language of unspoken? The words are sweet; the space is bitter or is this just the them I’ve chosen.

There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)

My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.