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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I am aware that a philosophers ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. – 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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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. – James A. Baldwin

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Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. – George Washington

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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. – Albert Pike

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If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. – Epictetus

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