Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

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.

Nicolaus Copernicus

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  W. S. Merwin
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• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
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  • Women
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• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
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• That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

  

  Saint Bernard
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• I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Life
  • America
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• Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.

  

  T-Pain
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dead
  • Witch
  • Wicked

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Masculinity

• The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Business
  • Me
  • Film

• I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Mother

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beautiful
  • Rest
  • Need

• 'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Life

• 'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• Jamque comes semper magnorum prima malorumsaeva fames aderat.

  

  Lucan

• There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls and I've given it to many people as a present. (On his iconic photo of Che Guevara)

  

  Alberto Korda
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Present

• I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Art
  • House
  • Small

• I got interested in the contradiction between people who are understanding the city by not moving a single inch, by remaining in the same place all the time, and people like me who are constantly roaming around.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Time
  • City

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• In this is love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  

  John the Apostle
  • God
  • Son
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Moving
  • Consider
  • Planets