Comparison Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place…

— 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

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator

— Nicolaus Copernicus

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard it as…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

— Nicolaus Copernicus