Quotes by : Nicolaus Copernicus

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things,....

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish....

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true....

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it....

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work,....

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty....

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals,....

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and....