Perhaps there will be babblers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless dare to pass judgment on these things, and because of some passage in Holy Scripture, want to distort my book from their purpose.
Heliocentric model of the solar system
Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
1543
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"I consider it the chief duty of an astronomer to gather the observations of the heavenly bodies, and to explain their motions by hypotheses."
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