Nicolaus Copernicus — "For it is not necessary that hypotheses should be true, or even probable; it is …"

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.
Nicolaus Copernicus — Nicolaus Copernicus Early Modern · Heliocentric model of the solar system

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Preface to De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Osiander's anonymous preface, not Copernicus's words, but often associated with the book)

Date: 1543

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