For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus
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  1. To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  2. In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.

  3. Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

  4. 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.

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

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