An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
TYCHO BRAHEWith 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.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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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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And when statesman or others worry [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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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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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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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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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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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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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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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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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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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