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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#common #eminent #fear #few #give

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


#circle #earth #fact #in fact #moon

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.


Clarence Darrow


#came #corner #ever #greatest #greatest man

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 center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.


Sigmund Freud


#like #necessarily #physical #psychical #reality

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.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#also #center #consider #earth #i

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#although #art #arts #away #better

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#believes #earth #hold #motion #natural

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show recently and I was sat in the make-up chair chatting to a guy say next to me but I couldn't look round and see who it was, it was only when I got up I realised it had been Bryan Adams I'd been talking to!


Richard Fleeshman


#been #bit #bryan #chair #chat

To win you've got to stay in the game.


Claude M. Bristol


#got #stay #win #you






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