Astronomy Quote by Tycho Brahe
“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 . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.”
![“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, so that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/215/tycho-brahe-26422_authority_the-body-of-the-earth-large-sluggish-and_292236.jpg)
![“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. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ea/tycho-brahe-26422_accurate_for-those-observations-that-i-made-in-le_593536.jpg)
![“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 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.” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/071/tycho-brahe-26422_earth_and-when-statesmen-or-others-worry-him-t_814434.jpg)
![“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 a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence…” quote by Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/448/tycho-brahe-26422_air_the-star-tycho-s-supernova-was-at-first_1044003.jpg)
