It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus . — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe in astronomy. Or is it astrology? I always get those two confused. But I’ll tell you, that Copernicus was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“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
“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith 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
“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the… — Christiaan Huygens 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
“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
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.… — Sigmund Freud 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
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
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
Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could… — Seth Shostak 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
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