73 Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

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

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

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.

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.

For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.

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

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.