Andreas Osiander quotes
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“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.”
-- Andreas OsianderSource : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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