Heliocentrism Galileo Quotes & Sayings

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come. — David Platt

The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be - the more traditional view of the solar system still prevailed even among leading scientists. So it's hardly surprising that Galileo's Catholic judges had difficulty accepting his views, especially when they saw themselves as defending scientific orthodoxy and were supported in this by the scientific establishment. — Michael Coren

While it is not my job to educate anyone, I understand that if I don't try, I cannot expect anyone else to understand. — Amber Neko Meador

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream. — Chuck D

Scrooge replied that the calendar was an arbitrary governor of a man's life and that the new year began anew whenever one decided to live his life in a new way. — Charlie Lovett

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to. — Wendelin Van Draanen

We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe. — Stephen Hawking