Even Quote by Martin Rees

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution.…

— Robert Jastrow

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious"…

— Paul Feyerabend

If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave…

— Stephen Hawking

“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

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

— Paul Feyerabend

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

— Brian Greene

“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

“The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract…

— Edward Abbey

There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could…

— Dan Aykroyd

At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory…

— Val Logsdon Fitch