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

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An Itinery written by Fynes Morrison, &c. (London, 1617) fol., p. 60, quoted in J. L. E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe (Edinburgh, 1890) p. 261. — Reported in Arthur Koestler, The Sleep Walkers (NY: Macmillan, 1959) pt. 4, ch. 4, sec. 4, p. 295

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

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