Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
TYCHO BRAHEAn astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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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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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.
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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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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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.
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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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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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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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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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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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