An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
TYCHO BRAHEIt was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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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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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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.
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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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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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And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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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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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 statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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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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