Tycho Brahe Quotes
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. 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.
Brahe, Tycho. Elegy to Denmark, 1597. Quoted in J.L.E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century, Adam and Charles Black, 1890, p. 244.
At the beginning of July, 1826 Adams, deathly ill, was asked to propose a toast to be given in his name for the coming July 4 celebrations. It was:. On his deathbed four days later he was aroused by the firing of cannon. When told it was Independence Day he murmured:
The world citizenship notion was later articulated by Eugene V. Debs in 1914.
The notion that a the first line of a national anthem should be focused on the survival of the nation is explained by the history of countries that have and have not existed having been overrun and occupied and absorbed into other nations. That fear exists centuries later. See Poland for another example {642422}.
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. He was born in the then-Danish peninsula of Scania. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. He has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts". Most of his observations were more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
