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Misattributed quotes — Nicolaus Copernicus

1473–1543 Poland

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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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Therefore alongside the ancient hypotheses, which are no more probable, let us permit these new hypotheses also to become known, especially since they are admirable as well as simple and bring with them a huge treasure of very skillful observations. So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

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