Away Quote by Dan Aykroyd

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may…

— Kevin J. Anderson

Five centuries ago, Copernicus upset humanity's applecart with the news that the Earth is not the center of the cosmos. It could be that,…

— Seth Shostak

Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.

— J. B. MacKinnon

Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature,…

— Seth Lloyd

“Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human…

— Tim Maudlin

The earth is, of course, not the geometric center of the universe. But it is certainly the center of our lives.

— David Roochnik

To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but…

— Jared Diamond

There is a still center of the universe. Within that still center are all things, all achievements, all loses, everything and nothing exist there.

— Frederick Lenz

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in…

— Carl Sagan

Let us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still.

— Henry David Thoreau

When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.

— Bernard Baily