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Earth Quotes by 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 I…
- Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as inconceivable…
- In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that…
- Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for…
- The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the…
- We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
- Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
- The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the…
- Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
- The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
- I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions…
- Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can…
- In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
- Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
- Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens…
- Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together…
- The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
- Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann