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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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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
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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."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"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."
"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."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
"We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface."
"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent."
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