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
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
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. – Nicolaus Copernicus
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
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. Its to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. Its also full of many wonderful things and love and hope. – P. J. Harvey
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that…. I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. – Abraham Cowley