Nicolaus Copernicus said this quote

“ So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. ”

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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