Copernicanism Quotes & Sayings

I was tired of being me. — Rachel Ward

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. — W.B.Yeats

Science's best-known victories were those of Copernicanism and Darwinism. — Gary B. Ferngren

This doesn't show that there is anything wrong with our theoretical understanding, any more than the intuition that the Earth is at rest shows that there must be something theoretically wrong with Copernicanism, or the intuition that time is moving shows that there is something theoretically wrong with the block universe 'B series' view of change. — David Papineau

conventions hosted by the Miami Morrison. The question was, what convention was Laker Girl attending? Walt had arrived at the hotel earlier in the day to find massive banners and the entire second floor of the conference hall filling up with pictures of half-naked men and women embracing. At first, he thought the competing conference had something to do with adult film. When he asked, he was told a writers convention was dominating the hotel for the weekend. By comparison, the number of people at the conference he was attending was a drop of water in the ocean. Soon the hotel would be filled with writers, readers, publishers, and agents. The genre of choice . . . romance. Books written with nothing but happily-ever-after in mind. — Catherine Bybee

Life isn't worth living if you're not fighting for something. A lost cause is a life mission worthy of pursuit just to prove them wrong. — Shannon L. Alder

I was a world champion on the trampoline at an international level, and gymnastics competitor. — Dan Millman

Are you lost, Lea? This isn't where they're handing out the free pregnancy tests. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process. — Catherine Tate

All for the Eucharist; nothing for me — Margaret Mary Alacoque

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs. — Hendrik Lenstra

I'm really sorry I ate your dog. — Nick Harkaway

Now a second-order vain person is a vain person who's also vain about appearing to have an utter lack of vanity. Who's enormously afraid that other people will perceive him as vain. A second-order vain person will sit up late learning jokes in order to appear funny and charming, but will deny that he sits up late learning jokes. Or he'll perhaps even try to give the impression that he doesn't regard himself as funny at all. — David Foster Wallace

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past. — Paul Feyerabend

I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing. — Chris Tucker