Accepting Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he…

— Bill Vaughan

“I research what astronomers do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly.”

— Thomas Hardy

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

— Martin Luther

“I expect to be awarded the Nobel prize for researching what professional astronomers did not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“It is possible that a man who was mentally and physically sickened by professional astronomers may end up being one of the world’s greatest…

— Steven Magee

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

“With the idol of certainty (including that of degrees of imperfect certainty or probability) there falls one of the defences of obscurantism which bar…

— Karl Popper

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

— Jean Rostand

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of them by…

— George F. Hourani

“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of this world.…

— Otto Von Guericke

“But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as…

— Thomas Henry Huxley