"That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law."

Source : "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.

Tycho Brahe

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“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. February 25, 2016.
“I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.”

Source : "1996 Guitar World Interview: Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains Discusses Songwriting and Band's New Self-Titled Album". Interview with Jeff Gilbert and Andy Aledort, www.guitarworld.com. Nobember 15, 2011.
“Our family has lived in Iran for 2,500 years, and Iranian Jewry has the long history in that land.”

Source : "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.
“The travel, the amazing work I have had the chance to do, the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.”
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”
“At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!”
“To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”
“We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.”

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