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Heavenly Bodies Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus
- I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in…
- 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…
- Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the…
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- We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France
- In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre… — Galileo Galilei
- On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,… — Seneca the Younger
- The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell
- A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to… — James Hutton
- Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they… — Florence Nightingale
- There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger
- In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as… — William Herschel
- They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of… — Jonathan Swift
- The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star… — Henry M. Morris
- All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of… — Joseph Campbell
- The law of attraction which holds good for the heavenly bodies also holds good for the smallest particles. — Swami Vivekananda