4 quotes
"I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Self-awareness
"There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Courage
"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
Knowledge
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
Knowledge