Earth Quote by 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

The Earth revolves around the Sun, not you.

— Matthew Donnell

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At…

— Srikumar Rao

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

— Vijay Seshadri

After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still,…

— Junichiro Koizumi

“if the Sun disappeared instantaneously, the Earth would continue to orbit the position of the Sun for seven minutes until the bad news reached…

— Andrew Thomas

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

— Terry Eagleton

The sun asks earth

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The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

— Donald Knuth

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

E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

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