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title: "59 Copernicus Quotes by 50 authors"
description: "Browse 59 Copernicus quotes by 50 authors. Discover the best Copernicus sayings and thoughts."
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> [It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tycho-brahe/it-was-not-just-the-church-that-resisted-the-heliocentrism-of/)

[Tycho Brahe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tycho-brahe/)

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> [The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-physical-doctrine-of-the-atom-has-got-into-a-state-which-is/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [ Why does it \[government\] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/why-does-it-government-always-crucify-christ-and-excommunicate/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“I don’t believe in astronomy. Or is it astrology? I always get those two confused. But I’ll tell you, that Copernicus was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/i-don-t-believe-in-astronomy-or-is-it-astrology-i-always-get-those/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/what-copernicus-really-achieved-was-not-the-discovery-of-a-true/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-zamyatin/the-world-is-kept-alive-only-by-heretics-the-heretic-christ-the-2/)

[Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-zamyatin/)

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> [Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/who-will-venture-to-place-the-authority-of-copernicus-above-that-of/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [ People give ear to an upstart astrologer \[Copernicus\]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/people-give-ear-to-an-upstart-astrologer-copernicus-this-fool-wishes/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-j-kilpatrick/louis-kelso-s-formula-sounds-like-lydia-pinkham-s-vegetable-compound/)

[James J. Kilpatrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-j-kilpatrick/)

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> [Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-mccarthy/modern-neurosis-began-with-the-discoveries-of-copernicus-science-made/)

[Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-mccarthy/)

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> [Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-rexroth/harvey-galileo-copernicus-do-not-seem-occult-to-us-but-they-did-so-to/)

[Kenneth Rexroth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-rexroth/)

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> [No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/no-one-can-read-the-history-of-astronomy-without-perceiving-that/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/is-it-so-bad-then-to-be-misunderstood-pythagoras-was-misunderstood/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-shelby-spong/i-live-on-the-other-side-of-copernicus-and-galileo-i-can-no-longer/)

[John Shelby Spong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-shelby-spong/)

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> [ \[Copernicus\] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/copernicus-did-not-ignore-the-bible-but-he-knew-very-well-that-if-his/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-zamyatin/the-world-is-kept-alive-only-by-heretics-the-heretic-christ-the/)

[Yevgeny Zamyatin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-zamyatin/)

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> [Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/since-copernicus-man-seems-to-have-got-himself-on-an-inclined-plane/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“With hindsight, it is truly remarkable that, as early as the sixteenth century, Copernicus and his disciple Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514–74) resolved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-b-ferngren/with-hindsight-it-is-truly-remarkable-that-as-early-as-the-sixteenth/)

[Gary B. Ferngren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-b-ferngren/)

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> [The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/the-following-passage-is-one-of-those-cited-by-copernicus-himself-in/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-koestler/in-the-index-to-the-six-hundred-odd-pages-of-arnold-toynbee-s-a-study/)

[Arthur Koestler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-koestler/)

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> [Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/yet-in-this-my-stars-were-not-mercury-as-morning-star-in-the-angle-of/)

[Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/)

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> [“There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/there-are-men-whose-sense-of-humour-is-so-ill-developed-that-they/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-blundeville/some-also-deny-that-the-earth-is-in-the-middest-of-the-world-and-some/)

Thomas Blundeville

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> [“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr-2/the-christians-who-engaged-in-infamous-persecutions-and-shameful-2/)

[Martin Luther King Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr-2/)

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> [“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-ball/it-is-only-rather-recently-that-science-has-begun-to-make-peace-with/)

[Philip Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-ball/)

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> [“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-d-yalom/it-has-often-been-noted-that-three-major-revolutions-in-thought-have/)

[Irvin D. Yalom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-d-yalom/)

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> [“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer-w-smith/when-in-1863-thomas-huxley-coined-the-phrase-man-s-place-in-nature-it/)

Homer W. Smith

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> [ “There is talk of a new astrologer \[Nicolaus Copernicus\] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther/there-is-talk-of-a-new-astrologer-nicolaus-copernicus-who-wants-to/)

[Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther/)

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> [“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/copernicus-theorized-that-the-earth-revolved-around-the-sun-but-it/)

[Rob Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-dunn/)

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> [“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/i-esteem-myself-happy-to-have-as-great-an-ally-as-you-in-my-search/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/a-man-that-is-of-copernicus-opinion-that-this-earth-of-ours-is-a/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

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> [“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/so-this-is-where-all-the-vapid-talk-about-the-soul-of-the-universe-is/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/if-the-people-of-europe-had-known-as-much-of-astronomy-and-geology/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/is-it-possible-that-the-pentateuch-could-not-have-been-written-by/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/humanity-has-in-the-course-of-time-had-to-endure-from-the-hands-of/)

[Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/)

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> [I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/augustin-louis-cauchy/i-am-a-christian-which-means-that-i-believe-in-the-deity-of-christ/)

[Augustin-Louis Cauchy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/augustin-louis-cauchy/)

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> [The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-phillips/the-reformer-is-careless-of-numbers-disregards-popularity-and-deals/)

[Wendell Phillips](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-phillips/)

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> [Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/matter-is-real-to-my-senses-but-they-aren-t-trustworthy-if-galileo-or/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-shostak/five-centuries-ago-copernicus-upset-humanity-s-applecart-with-the/)

[Seth Shostak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-shostak/)

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> [“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/misunderstood-it-is-a-right-fool-s-word-is-it-so-bad-then-to-be/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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                        "text": "Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way of supposition, and not for that he thought so in deede: who affirmeth that the earth turneth about, and that the sunne standeth still in the midst of the heauens, by help of which false supposition he hath made truer demonstrations of the motions and reuolutions of the celestiall Spheares, than euer were made before. . . .",
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                        "text": "“The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict from God to withstand the progress of science, whether in the form of a Copernican revolution or a Darwinian theory of natural selection, were not mischievous men but misinformed men.”",
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                        "text": "“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it was common for histories of science either to commence decorously with Copernicus's heliocentric theory or to laud the rationalism of Aristotelian antiquity and then to leap across the Middle Ages as an age of ignorance and superstition. One could, with care and diligence, find occasional things to praise in the works of Avicenna, William of Ockham, Albertus Magnus, and Roger Bacon, but these sparse gems had to be thoroughly dusted down and scraped clean of unsightly accretions before being inserted into the corners of a frame fashioned in a much later period.”",
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                        "text": "“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was not the center about which all celestial bodies revolved. Next, Darwin showed us that we were not central in the chain of life but, like all other creatures, had evolved from other life-forms. Third, Freud demonstrated that we are not masters in our own house-that much of our behavior is governed by forced outside of our consciousness. There is no doubt that Freud’s unacknowledged co-revolutionary was Arthur Schopenhauer, who, long before Freud’s birth, had posited that we are governed by deep biological forced and then delude ourselves into thinking that we consciously choose our activities.”",
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                        "text": "“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays applying to man Darwin's theory of evolution. The Origin of Species had been published only four years before, and the thesis that man was literally a part of nature, rather than an earthy vessel charged with some sublimer stuff, was so novel and so offensive to current metaphysics that it needed the most vigorous defense. Half the civilized world was rudely shocked, the other half skeptically amused. Nearly a century has passed since the Origin shattered the complacency of the Victorian world and initiated what may be called the Darwinian revolution, an upheaval of man's ideas comparable to and probably exceeding in significance the revolution that issued from Copernicus's demonstration that the earth moves around the sun. The theory of evolution was but one of many factors contributing to the destruction of the ancient beliefs; it only toppled over what had already been weakened by centuries of decay, rendered suspect by the assaults of many intellectual disciplines; but it marked the beginning of the end of the era of faith.”",
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                        "text": "“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved. But that is how things are nowadays: when a man wishes to be clever he must . . . invent something special, and the way he does it must needs be the best! The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down. However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth. [Martin Luther stating his objection to heliocentrism due to his Scripture's geocentrism]”",
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                        "text": "“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published anything regarding his discovery. He had largely kept it a secret, and a pretty good one as they go.* It would take Galileo to publicize and add nuance to Copernicus’s theory, but soon what was once heretical, that the Earth circled the sun, seemed obvious. Our place in the universe changed in a generation. The biological equivalent of the Copernican revolution would prove less simple. The biological world does not revolve around us, but we still tend to believe it does.”",
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                        "text": "“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the Sun, like the rest of them, cannot but sometimes have a fancy  …   that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, nay and their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours.… But we were always apt to conclude, that ’twas in vain to enquire after what Nature had been pleased to do there, seeing there was no likelihood of ever coming to an end of the Enquiry  …   but a while ago, thinking somewhat seriously on this matter (not that I count my self quicker sighted than those great Men [of the past], but that I had the happiness to live after most of them) me thoughts the Enquiry was not so impracticable nor the way so stopt up with Difficulties, but that there was very good room left for probable Conjectures.”",
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                        "text": "“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.”",
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                        "text": "“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that Galilei ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that Copernicus ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that Kepler discovered his three laws—discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that Newton gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that Euclid , Cavalieri , Descartes , and Leibniz , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of Galvani , Volta , Franklin and Morse , of Trevithick , Watt and Fulton and of all the pioneers of progress—that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that Æschylus and Shakespeare , Burns , and Beranger , Goethe and Schiller , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God?”",
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                        "text": "“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a tiny speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable; this is associated in our minds with the name of Copernicus, although Alexandrian doctrines taught something very similar. The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world, implying an ineradicable animal nature in him: this transvaluation has been accomplished in our own time upon the instigation of Charles Darwin, Wallace, and their predecessors, and not without the most violent opposition from their contemporaries. But man's craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow from present-day psychological research which is endeavoring to prove to the ego of each one of us that he is not even master in his own house, but that he must remain content with the veriest scraps of information about what is going on unconsciously in his own mind. We psycho-analysts were neither the first nor the only ones to propose to mankind that they should look inward; but it appears to be our lot to advocate it most insistently and to support it by empirical evidence which touches every man closely.”",
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                        "text": "I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.",
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                        "text": "Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.",
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                        "text": "Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that, before you've paid off your house, we'll learn that the universe is not the center of the universe, either!",
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