Tycho Quotes

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

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.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.