Adequate Quote by Alan Turing

In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about…

— Alan Turing

Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you…

— Galileo Galilei

“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky,…

— Martin Luther

“Some of the men to whom Copernicus communicated his theory were German Lutherans, but when Luther came to know of it, he was profoundly…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures…

— Galileo Galilei

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

— Pope Paul V

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s…

— Dan Brown

“Nicolaus Copernicus, fearing ridicule and rejection, refused to publish his discovery that the earth revolves around the sun. For 26 years, he shared his…

— Edify.me

“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of this world.…

— Otto Von Guericke