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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

Tycho Brahe

For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable.
TYCHO BRAHE

Century Done Leipzig Made Observation One Twenty Youth
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
TYCHO BRAHE

God Star Study Teacher
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).
TYCHO BRAHE

Authority Confirm Earth Elsewhere Idea Many Oppose Physical Time
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE

Him Leave Much Other Possession Scientist Statement Worry
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Body Full Hard Heaven Impervious Machine Real Sphere Various
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHE

Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Accomplish Complete Esther Explanation Inform Narrower Planet Unless Widest
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

Energetic Everywhere Fatherland Hold Man Mind Steadfast Under
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
TYCHO BRAHE

Lived May Seem Vain
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHE

Eccentric Mars Orbit Something
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
TYCHO BRAHE

Church Copernius Heliocentrism Just Resist
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHE

Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether.
TYCHO BRAHE

Celestrial Gone Great Incredible Magnitude Region World
There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
TYCHO BRAHE

Been Before never Place Sky Star
Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
TYCHO BRAHE

Become Come Finally Imprisonment Lastly Sad Saturn Sort Star Thing Time
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
TYCHO BRAHE

Behold Certain Directly Overhead Seen Star Strange Suddenly War

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