Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political…

“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only…

— Tom Robbins

Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business,…

— Tom Robbins

The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the…

— George Coyne

“In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points…

— Ulrich Müller

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious"…

— Paul Feyerabend

The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution.…

— Robert Jastrow

“This is only the beginning of a huge “Copernican revolution” (to borrow a phrase from Matthew Taylor, one of Tony Blair’s advisers) that is…

— John Micklethwait

“Since this organization takes place at the preconscious level, our conscious experience shows us stable, apparently independent objects, which accounts for the plausibility of…

— Lee Braver

The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or…

— Seth Shostak

“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published anything regarding…

— Rob Dunn

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

— Bryan Magee

“Russell simply could not swallow the notion that the mind is not R5 Passive but affects what is known—the very centerpiece of Kant’s Copernican…

— Lee Braver

A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed…

— Michael Hesemann

Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in…

— Joseph Campbell

“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only a political…

— Murray N. Rothbard