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• But Aristarchus of Samos brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, in which the premises lead to the conclusion that the universe is many times greater than that now so called.
  His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain motionless, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface....
• Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconvenience
  for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility in nature, by representing the sun and stars as immoveable, especially being of all bodies the highest and most radiant, and making the moon revolve about the earth in an epicycle, and some other assumptions of his, are the speculations of one who cares not what fictions he introduces into nature, provided his calculations answer....
• I 'm weary of conjectures,--this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly armed
  my death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me...
• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings.
  -- William Shakespeare...
• Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.