Astronomy Quote by John Calvin

“There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky,…

— Martin Luther

“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published anything regarding…

— Rob Dunn

“Some of the men to whom Copernicus communicated his theory were German Lutherans, but when Luther came to know of it, he was profoundly…

— Bertrand Russell

“Like sunflowers, no matter where they are planted turn towards the sun, I too began turning in the direction that nourished me.”

— Lalah Delia

“Tell me about yourselves and describe the sun to a miserable wretch who has no roots anywhere and who remains your faithful.”

— Albert Camus

The Earth revolves around the Sun, not you.

— Matthew Donnell

“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“The sun does not rise or set. The earth rotates.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“E pur si muove." (And yet it moves.) ( What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

The sun asks earth

— Author Name

The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by…

— Thomas Blundeville