Copernicus Book Quotes & Sayings

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed. — Paulo Coelho

I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work. — Kathleen Hanna

These were the sorts of notions that had been raised in all my classes, and we had chased them round and round like dogs maddened by their tails. — Lorrie Moore

In the right circumstances, a man can help himself by writing a book about his point, or a pamphlet, or at least a letter to the editor, thereby putting his protest on the historical record, which is marvelously comforting even if nobody reads it. Usually, however, it can be counted on to attract the attention of a few readers who assure the author that he is a new Copernicus, whereupon they introduce themselves as unrecognized Newtons. This custom of picking points out of each other's fur is widespread and a great comfort, but it is without lasting effect because the participants soon fall to quarreling and find themselves isolated again. — Robert Musil

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. — Nicolaus Copernicus

I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago. — Jonathan Toews

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. — Samuel Johnson

Short sellers age in dog years. — Seth Klarman

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. — Sadie Frost

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody. — Brian Welch

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur. — Darell Hammond

Magnus was not planning on talking about why he preferred Alec. The heart had its reasons, and they were seldom all that reasonable. [ ... ] You liked the people you liked. — Cassandra Clare

You have an extraordinary genius for minutiae, — Arthur Conan Doyle

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew. — Dennis Potter

There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen. — Rachel Joyce

Icon Books has a fine series called "Revolutions in Science." These works are succinct, highly readable, and authoritative. The series includes John Henry's Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System (Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2001). Henry's book can be read in an afternoon, and, while not as detailed as Kuhn's classic, it tells the story with verve and lucidity. — Howard Margolis

In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe. In the remaining books I relate the motions of the remaining stars, and all the spheres, to the mobility of the Earth, so that it can be thence established how far the motions and appearances of the remaining stars and spheres can be saved, if they are referred to the motions of the Earth. — Nicolaus Copernicus