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[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

— Carl Sagan

“The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler’s contemporaries, that “in a dream one must be allowed the…

— Carl Sagan

“THE DANGEROUS VICE OF ASKING Which is worth more? Experience or doctrine? By dropping stones and pebbles, big balls and little balls, Galileo Galilei…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that quantitative physical…

— Carl Sagan

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein

“Nicolaus Copernicus, fearing ridicule and rejection, refused to publish his discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. For 26 years, he shared his…

— Edify.me

“If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his…

— Carl Sagan

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are…

— Walter Lippmann

“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of…

— Albert Einstein

“Diligence and attention soon gave him the knack of it, and he strode down the street with his mouth full of harmony and his…

— Mark Twain

When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries…

— Thomas B. Macaulay