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"The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction."
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"It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in."
"I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me."
"Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction."
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
"You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself."
"I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
Explore more quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent."
"Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun."
"I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle."
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
"Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
"For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
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