And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHEThose who study the stars have God for a teacher.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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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.
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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).
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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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 . . . .
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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