Copernicus Quotes

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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, but they were… — Johannes Kepler
Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the… — Mary McCarthy
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of… — Victor Hugo
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in fact round; the… — Chris Shays
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and… — Arthur Koestler
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus… — Eric Temple Bell
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the… — Plutarch
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? — Henry David Thoreau
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… — Thomas Blundeville
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… — Wendell Phillips
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. — Tycho Brahe
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when… — Galileo Galilei
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
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down… — John Shelby Spong

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