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.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Tycho Brahe, (Dec 14 1546-1601), Danish astronomer; He recorded the first exploding star seen in Europe and coined the term nova.