“It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.”

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.

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.

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.

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

For me, the Church is the enemy.

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.