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> [I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I knew that others before me had been granted the liberty of imagining whatever circles they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/i-therefore-took-this-opportunity-and-also-began-to-consider-the/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

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## More by Nicolaus Copernicus

> [In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/in-the-center-of-all-rests-the-sun-for-who-would-place-this-lamp-of-a/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/hence-i-feel-no-shame-in-asserting-that-this-whole-region-engirdled/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/those-who-know-that-the-consensus-of-many-centuries-has-sanctioned/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/the-two-revolutions-i-mean-the-annual-revolutions-of-the-declination/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/the-universe-has-been-wrought-for-us-by-a-supremely-good-and-orderly/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/if-there-should-chance-to-be-any-mathematicians-who-ignorant-in/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/although-all-the-good-arts-serve-to-draw-man-s-mind-away-from-vices/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/for-i-am-not-so-enamoured-of-my-own-opinions-that-i-disregard-what/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/in-the-first-book-i-shall-describe-all-the-positions-of-the-spheres/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/among-the-authorities-it-is-generally-agreed-that-the-earth-is-at/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/i-therefore-took-this-opportunity-and-also-began-to-consider-the/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/at-rest-however-in-the-middle-of-everything-is-the-sun/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/moreover-since-the-sun-remains-stationary-whatever-appears-as-a/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [Near the sun is the center of the universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/near-the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

> [For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolaus-copernicus/for-what-could-be-more-beautiful-than-the-heavens-which-contain-all/)

[Nicolaus Copernicus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolaus-copernicus/)

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