Center of the universe Quote by Mary McCarthy

“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s…

— Dan Brown

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and…

— Andrew Dickson White

“Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first…

— Sigmund Freud

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The scientific world view works so well, explains so much and resonates so harmoniously with the most advanced parts of our brains that in…

— Carl Sagan

The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.

— Robert L. Park

“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 first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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 position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that…

— Albert J. Nock

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