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GREAT QUOTES OF COPERNICUS
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. - 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
Mathematics is written for mathematicians. - Nicolaus Copernicus
The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. - Nicolaus Copernicus
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. - Nicolaus Copernicus
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. - Nicolaus Copernicus
At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. - Nicolaus Copernicus
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. - Nicolaus Copernicus
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. - 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