Quotes...
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the
judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in
all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not
know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything
certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth
ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool
than when he entered it.
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.
All- Nicolaus Copernicus
judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in
all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not
know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything
certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth
ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool
than when he entered it.
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.
All- Nicolaus Copernicus