Ye Immortal Gods! Where In The World

It Is Our Own Evil Thoughts Which Madden Us.

The Following Passage Is One Of Those Cited By Copernicus Himself In His Preface To De Revolutionibus: "the Syracusan Hicetas, As Theophrastus Asserts, Holds The View That The Heaven, Sun, Moon, Stars, And In Short All Of The Things On High Are Stationary, And That Nothing In The World Is In Motion Except The Earth, Which By Revolving And Twisting Round Its Axis With Extreme Velocity Produces All The Same Results As Would Be Produced If The Earth Were Stationary And The Heaven In Motion. . . ."

Brevity Is A Great Charm Of Eloquence.

There Never Was A Great Soul That Did Not Have Some Divine Inspiration.

Whatever Befalls In Accordance With Nature Should Be Accounted Good.