So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHELastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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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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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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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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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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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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 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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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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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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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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Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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