Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest.… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also… — Thomas Blundeville Copy Share Image
“Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? [Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection… — Abraham Calovius Copy Share Image
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
