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I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
— John Shelby Spong
Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator
— Nicolaus Copernicus
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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— Lee Smolin
What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow")
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
But the palace of knowledge is different from the palace of discovery, in which I am, truly, a Copernicus.
— Mary Oliver
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .
— Alfred North Whitehead
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
It is interesting to note that Copernicus was German/Polish, Luther was German, and Gutenberg was German.
— George Friedman
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Near the sun is the center of the universe.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.
— Nicolaus Copernicus