The best Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

The best Quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed his model independently of Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.

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.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
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First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.
Since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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Knowing where you're going can be confusing. Trust your instincts.
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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That's what I do. I drink and I know things.
Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 6 Episode 2
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The more you know, the more you realise how much you don't know - the less you know, the more you think you know.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."
Cady Heron in Mean Girls
The wheel allowed people to travel around, trading things. But first, they needed to count how many things they owned. And that led to the tragic invention of maths.
Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1
Remember those teachers from the 90s who told you that you wouldn't always have a calculator in your pocket in the future? I'd love to smack my smartphone into his face today!
With math, if you work on it, you'll get the answer eventually. So many problems in this world have no answer, no matter how hard you try.
Yoon Ah-yi in The Sound of Magic - Season 1 Episode 1
My little brother proudly told me today that, from now on, they will be allowed to use a calculator in maths-class: "Everything's gonna be much easier!"
I'm laughing.
The calculator's laughing.
X and Y are laughing.
"How're you doing with mathematics?"
"Addition, subtraction, followed by frustration and, in the end, capitulation."
When the maths homework of my son is too hard for me, I post it on Facebook with the caption, "Only 1 out of 10 can solve this."
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
Mathematics alone soothes the mind through extraordinary assurance.
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I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside.
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Everything existing in the Universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
When it comes to the universe we're all shareholders.
The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Quantum physics makes me so happy. It's like looking at the universe naked.
Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 5 Episode 20
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When we try to pick anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.
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Chance is the only legitimate ruler of the universe.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!
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Eternal sunshine creates deserts.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
Joe Biden - März 2024
What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

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