Top 22 Copernican Quotes
#1. Long ago it took a Copernicus to tell a provincial world that this planet was not the center of the universe. Some selfish moderns need a Copernican reminder that they are not the center of the universe either!
Neal A. Maxwell
#2. Detailed scientific arguments by the authors present a serious challenge to the expositors of the Copernican Principle (that man is merely an impure lump of carbon crawling about on the surface of an insignificant speck of cosmic dust).
David Medved
#3. There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.
Martin Rees
#4. The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.
Robert Jastrow
#5. If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle ... . Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.
George F. R. Ellis
#6. [Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved
Jonathan Franzen
#7. She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
David Mitchell
#8. The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.
George Coyne
#9. Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.
Paul Feyerabend
#10. The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
Bryan Magee
#11. The simplest things in life are what makes us happy eventually. A warm and comfy home, being loved, and knowing that somebody can't live without you
Ika Natassa
#12. Patience, little one. I want to take my time with you.
Teresa Mummert
#13. Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.
Katharine Isabelle
#15. My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better ... to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.
Gail Sheehy
#16. My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.
Ella Henderson
#17. As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.
Gail Kim
#18. In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.
Per G. Malm
#19. If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
Gayle Gardner
#20. Ironically, the more we crave to possess and dominate the world and others, the deeper and more unbearable becomes the chasm of our own emptiness.
Stephen Batchelor
#21. But I stand convinced that the brand of justice in which we dealt, wholesale bombings of civilian populations, was blasphemous.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a criminal.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
