"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
"I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]"
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Source: The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho Against Ursus With Essays on its Provenance and Significance. Book by N. Jardine, 1984.
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