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33 quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜrnɪkəs, kə-/; Polish:  Mikołaj Kopernik (help·info); German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center. The publication of this model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his...
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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

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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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At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

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

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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the... →

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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

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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... →

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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

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Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

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The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a... →

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Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its... →

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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

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