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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
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"After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive."
"You never step backwards when you're sure of where you're going."
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"
"Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction."
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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."
"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."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"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."
"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."
"I am aware that a philosopher's 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."
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