Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

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.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.