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More Copernican Quotes

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• A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize… — Michael Hesemann
• I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support. Such arguments have often been… — Alan Turing
• The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of… — Bryan Magee
• If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think… — George F. R. Ellis
• The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence… — Robert Jastrow
• The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be… — Paul Feyerabend
• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere… — Seth Shostak
• In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not… — Alan Turing

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