"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.“
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"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."
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"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."
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"So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it."
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"I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God."
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"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
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