Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
TYCHO BRAHEFor 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.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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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.
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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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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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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
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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.
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And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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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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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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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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Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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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.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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