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 哥白尼

我最圣洁的父阿,我可以很容易地设想,当有人在我所写的这本关于天体运行的书中,知道我把某些运动归于地球时,他们会立刻大声疾呼,说我和我的理论应该被拒绝。

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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.

因此,既然没有什么能阻止地球运动,我建议我们现在也应该考虑几个运动是否适合它,这样它就可以被看作是行星之一。因为,它不是所有革命的中心。

You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

你有肌肉,当你需要的时候,你可以在身体的任何地方使用它们。为什么不是你的脸?

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

如果最伟大的上帝是所有运动加起来的静止,那么我们就不可避免地要包括在内。

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

头脑不能保留的东西,身体必须忍受。