"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains stationary in the middle of the heavens will, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement."

Nicolaus Copernicus

Astronomer


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"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."

"The universe was wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator."

"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."

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