Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

• Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.

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• Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

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• Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

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• We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

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• Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

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• 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.

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• Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

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• So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

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• 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 fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

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

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• For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

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Nicolaus Copernicus (31)

Birth:	19th February, 1473
Death:	24th May, 1543
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Artist, Astronomer, Economist, Mathematician, Physician

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