Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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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

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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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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

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I havent, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one. – Oliver North

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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich

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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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