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“ Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ”

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus