Copernican Revolution Quotes

#1. The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

Bryan Magee

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

Cy Twombly

#6. First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

#7. At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

Josh Duhamel

#8. Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Feist

#9. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

#10. You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

Robin Williams

#11. America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#12. Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.

Stephen King