Andreas Osiander Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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Every team has absentees. In this type of match we needed to try harder.
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We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.
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For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others. There are few demands to be met, and no commitment is required. Marriage, on the other hand, closes the door. Your existence is confined to a narrow space in which you are constantly forced to reveal yourself – and therefore, constantly obliged to look into yourself, to examine your own depths.
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
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Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.
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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.
