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.…
• 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…
• The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come…
• Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
• May I not seem to have lived in vain.
• 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…
• And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one…
• An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
• There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
• So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
• Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors…
• 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…
• It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
• And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
• 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…
• 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…
• I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the…
• 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…

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