Top 9 Copernicus Quotes

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Race, Copernicus, Flags

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

Tycho Brahe

Church, Copernicus

What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Discovery, Views, Copernicus

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Alive, World, Copernicus

"Tomorrow" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin" (1970), 1919.

[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.

Galileo Galilei

Doctrine, Copernicus, Scripture

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

John Calvin

Scary, Copernicus, Venture

There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.

W. Somerset Maugham

Men, Copernicus, Bears

"A Writer's Notebook (1901)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

Some also deny that the earth is in the middest of the world, and some affirme that it is mouable, as also Copernicus by way of supposition, and not for that he thought so in deede: who affirmeth that the earth turneth about, and that the sunne standeth still in the midst of the heauens, by help of which false supposition he hath made truer demonstrations of the motions and reuolutions of the celestiall Spheares, than euer were made before. . . .

Thomas Blundeville

World, Earth, Copernicus