1. Copernicus - Noun
2. Copernicus - Proper noun
Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
a conspicuous crater on the Moon
Source: WordNetMatter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets. Albert Einstein
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus. Tycho Brahe
Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment. Kenneth Rexroth
Copernicus stuck very closely to the facts, but in Kepler I invented freely, and it's a much better book because of that. John Banville
Over the ages, if we had had a more open attitude to knowledge, to change of consciousness, to change of perception of the possibilities of life and the nature of the reality in which we live, people like Galileo or Copernicus would have had altogether easier lives. Benjamin Creme
In 1616 the system of Copernicus was condemned by the pope, by the infallible Catholic Church, and the church was about as near right upon that subject as upon any other. Robert G. Ingersoll