Tycho Brahe — "I have a laboratory in my castle, and I make my own medicines."

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

"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."

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

"I have built a castle on an island, and I have filled it with instruments and books, and I have called it Uraniborg, which means 'Castle of the Heavens.'"

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