"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

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"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."

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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

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"To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting."

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"I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance."

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"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor."

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"We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information."

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"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."

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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."

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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."

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"I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected."

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"Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars."

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"For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."

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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."

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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."

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"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."

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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every 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."

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"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."

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