Certainty Quote by Nicolaus Copernicus

At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from Paris to Asnieres. But that fact doesn't…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated…

— Anaximander of Miletus

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others…

— Christopher Columbus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“To All the World: I declare the earth is hollow and habitable within; containing a number of solid, concentric spheres; one within the other,…

— Umberto Eco

“The earth’s surface measures about 510 million square kilometres”

— Yuval Noah Harari

The theory of the earth is the science which describes and explains changes that the terrestrial globe has undergone from its beginning until today,…

— Horace-Benedict de Saussure

Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball

— Garrett P. Serviss

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They…

— Saint Augustine

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and…

— Thomas Wolfe

The sphere ... which is located beyond our physical world is called the earth zone. It is also known as the zone girdling the…

— Franz Bardon

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical…

— Leonard Susskind