"Now it is quite clear to me that……" — Tycho Brahe
"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 to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
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Tycho Brahe
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18 Quotes by Tycho Brahe
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For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call…
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether…
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The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like…
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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three…
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a…
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such…
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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