Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth.
Nicolaus Copernicus

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

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

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.
Nicolaus Copernicus

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.
Nicolaus Copernicus

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
Pearl S. Buck

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
Christopher Marlowe

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?
Steven Morrissey

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
Thomas Malthus

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
Thomas Malthus

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie