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1. "...Bana öyle geliyor ki, Pythagorasçilar bazilarinin düsündügü gibi, ögretilerini paylasmaktan duyduklari kiskançliktan degil de, büyük insanlara ait böylesine güzel ve binbir zorlukla dolu kesif, maddî bir kazanci olmaksizin kalem oynatmayi sikici bulan ya da baskalarinin yüreklendirip örnek olmasiyla hür felsefe çalismasina özendirilse de aklî donukluklarindan ötürü filozoflar arasinda tipki bal arilarinin arasindaki erkek arilar gibi duran kisilerce hor görülmesin diye böyle yapiyordu." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
2. "Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
3. "For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
4. "For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
5. "Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
6. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
7. "Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
8. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
9. "Mathematics is written for mathematicians." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
10. "For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
11. "Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
12. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
13. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
14. "The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
15. "Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
16. "At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
17. "Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
18. "Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
19. "The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
20. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
21. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
22. "First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
23. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus
24. "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." ~ Nicolaus Copernicus

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