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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
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"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."
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"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters."

"When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row."
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"The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow."
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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."

"Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions."

"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."

"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."

"Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place."

"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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