Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus
Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same reque

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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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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Truth
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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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History
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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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Fear
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw

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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. – Jean Anouilh

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On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. – Michael Sheen

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I think theres a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before Ive even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life. – Shalom Harlow

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. – George Bernard Shaw

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Ive noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether its various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. – David Byrne

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. – Plato

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Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head. – Julia Leigh

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