#us

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

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

We usually get what we anticipate. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#get #usually

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #fan #get

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#expressive #form #give #human #human spirit

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion. ↗

— David Copperfield

#every #i #illusion #key #know

When shooting in the dark, it is a good idea to use a machine gun. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#good #good idea #gun #idea #machine

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#anything #been #before #challenges #done