Earth Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because…

— Aristotle

If the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since nothing violent…

— Thomas Aquinas

It is clear that the earth does not move, and that it does not lie elsewhere than at the center.

— Aristotle

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

— Alan Greenspan

“As you are surely aware, our planet is turning on its axis around and around in space. It turns slowly, however, making one complete…

— Tom Robbins

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than…

— Tycho Brahe

In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the…

— Galileo Galilei

“True. The planets are in a formation, a pentagram. It's as if they were pulled together on purpose." "Maybe they were. Where is the…

— Katie Mattie

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

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they…

— Isaac Newton