For it is not necessary that hypotheses should be true, or even probable; it is enough if they provide a calculus which agrees with the observations.
Heliocentric model of the solar system
Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Osiander's anonymous preface, not Copernicus's words, but often associated with the book)
1543
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