Time Quote by Alan Turing

I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been found unsatisfactory in the…

— Alan Turing

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“E pur si muove." (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“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

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

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

“As for astronomy, the Greeks did not accept their own or any of the original mythologies with which they came in contact. The refusal…

— George Bailey