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"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
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"The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it."
"Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities."
"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
"Today is the day you've been waiting for."
"Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him."
"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."
"You must explore the timeless opportunities in life."
"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
"There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it."
"Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted."
Explore more quotes by Nicolaus Copernicus
"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."
"Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth."
"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."
"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."
"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics."
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
"So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do."
"More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise."
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