Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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• Universe
• Motion
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• Stationary

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Country
  • Book

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Year
  • United States
  • Ship

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Earth
  • Boy
  • Fire

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Universe

• If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • You
  • Earth
  • Moon

• When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Yourself

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • Humanity
  • Moment
  • Ship

• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Die

• Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Sex

• Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Life
  • Earth

• Now the origin of the universe that you know, as I have described it, was of course a master event. The initial action did not occur in space or time, but formed space and time.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Time
  • Action
  • Space

• Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Earth
  • Education
  • Languages

• I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Enemy
  • Creed

• I may not understand it or accept it, but the world is changing.

  

  John Rowland
  • World
  • May

• For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Motion