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Tycho Brahe Quotes

Tycho Brahe Quotes.

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.
Tycho Brahe
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
Tycho Brahe
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
Tycho Brahe
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.
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.
Tycho Brahe
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.
Tycho Brahe
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
Tycho Brahe
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
Tycho Brahe