"Reach me down my Tycho Brahé, — I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his f…"

"An astronomer must be cosmopolitan because ignorant statesmen can not be expected to value their services."

"Those who study the stars have God for a teacher."

"Let me not seem to have lived in vain."

"But there really are not any spheres in the heavens...and those which have been devised by the authors to save the ap…"

"Simplicibus itaque verbis gaudet Mathematica Veritas, cum etiam per se simplex sit Veritatis oratio."

"When on the above mentioned day [November 11], a little before dinner...I was returning to that house, and during my …"

"Weder hohe Ämter, noch Macht, einzig die Zepter der Wissenschaft überdauern."

"Nicht scheinen, sondern sein."

"Lass mein Leben nicht vergeblich gewesen sein."