Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes About Heaven
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For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things.
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Not only the phenomena of the others followed from this, but also it so bound together both the order and magnitude of all the planets and the spheres and the heaven itself, that in no single part could one thing be altered without confusion among the other parts and in all the universe.
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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.
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Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.
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The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
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