Tycho Brahe

I trust my instruments more than I trust the pronouncements of men.

The pursuit of knowledge is an endless journey.

I have sought to bring order to the celestial chaos.

To measure is to know.

I have been driven by an insatiable curiosity.

The stars are a language, and I am learning to read it.

My observations are my legacy.

I have wrestled with the heavens, and I have found joy in the struggle.

The universe is far more complex and wondrous than we can imagine.

I concluded that this new star was not any kind of comet or fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself—one that has never previously been seen before our time.

Let me not seem to have lived in vain.

I have studied all available charts of the planets and stars and none of them match the others. There are just as many measurements as there are astronomers and all of them disagree.

My nose was cut off in a duel with Manderup Parsbjerg, so I had a prosthetic made of gold and silver.

The heavens are changeable, I know, but the Earth is stable and immovable.

I have a tame elk, but it died after drinking too much beer at a banquet.

The stars are not eternal; they can be born and die.

I will not be bound by the authority of the ancients, but by the observations of my own eyes.

The comet of 1577 was not an atmospheric phenomenon, but a celestial body beyond the Moon.

My island of Hven is a paradise for astronomers.

The peasants are like animals; they understand nothing but the whip.