Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus
- 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.
- For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
- I am aware that a philosopher’s ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
- 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.
- I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
- For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
- Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
- So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
- 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.
- 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.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who is best known for his theory of heliocentrism, which placed the sun at the center of the solar system and the planets, including Earth, revolving around it.
Born in Torun, Poland, Copernicus was educated in various universities across Europe, including the University of Krakow, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. He later became a canon of the Catholic Church and worked as a physician and administrator.
In the early 16th century, Copernicus began developing his heliocentric theory, which he described in his book “De revolutionibus orbium coelestium” (“On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres”). The book was published in 1543, the same year as his death.
Copernicus’ work challenged the dominant Ptolemaic system, which placed the Earth at the center of the universe, and laid the foundation for the scientific revolution. His theory was further developed by other scientists, including Galileo and Kepler, and eventually became widely accepted as the correct model of the solar system. Copernicus’ legacy as a revolutionary thinker and pioneering astronomer continues to inspire scientists and scholars to this day.
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