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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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"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,
"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."
"To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world."
"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
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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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