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TECHNOLOGY > astronomer > Nicolas Copernicus
Let no one...
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Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away . . . a bigger fool than when he came to it.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Nicolas Copernicus, (Feb 19 1473-1543), Polish astronomer; He was first to propose that planets revolved around the sun; wrote Mathematics of a Heliocentric Solar System, 1543.