Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything cer

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. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Although all the good arts serve to draw mans mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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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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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. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives… by make-believe. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. – Bryant H. McGill

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