Nicolaus Copernicus > Quotes

“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.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

“In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

“Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Libri Sex (Nicolaus Copernicus: Gesamtausgabe)

“...Bana öyle geliyor ki, Pythagorasçılar bazılarının düşündüğü gibi, öğretilerini paylaşmaktan duydukları kıskançlıktan değil de, büyük insanlara ait böylesine güzel ve binbir zorlukla dolu keşif, maddî bir kazancı olmaksızın kalem oynatmayı sıkıcı bulan ya da başkalarının yüreklendirip örnek olmasıyla hür felsefe çalışmasına özendirilse de aklî donukluklarından ötürü filozoflar arasında tıpkı bal arılarının arasındaki erkek arılar gibi duran kişilerce hor görülmesin diye böyle yapıyordu.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, Göksel Kürelerin Devinimleri Üzerine

“I often considered whether there could perhaps be found a more reasonable arrangement of circles.”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, Commentariolus (Perfect Library)

“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 perfect circle."
1543 AD”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

“Why therefore should we hesitate any longer to grant to it the movement which accords naturally with its firm, rather than put the whole world in a commotion—the world whose limits we do not and cannot know? And why not admit that the appearance of daily revolution belongs to the heavens but the reality belongs to the Earth? And things are as when Aeneas said in Virgil: “ We sail out of the harbor, and the land and the cities move away.” Page 23”
― Nicolaus Copernicus, On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

“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 perfect circle.
1543 AD”
― Nicolaus Copernicus

“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 perfect circle.
Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543 AD”
― Nicolaus Copernicus