Tycho Brahe Quotes

"When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky."
- Tycho Brahe
(Related: Habit, Sky, Stars)

"It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus."
- Tycho Brahe
(Related: Church)

"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
- Tycho Brahe
(Related: Age, Time, Beginning, World)

"With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland."
- Tycho Brahe
(Related: Earth, Man, Mind, Sky)