<p>Aristarchus of Samos brought out a book consisting of some hypotheses, in which the premises lead to the result that the universe is many times greater than that now so called. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves around the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit …</p>
“The Sand Reckoner,” p. 520, the earliest surviving formulation of the Copernican hypothesis which removes man from the center of the universe
– the earliest surviving formulation of the Copernican hypothesis which removes man from the center of the universe
<p>The time will come when diligent research over very long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden ... this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages ... There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.</p>
Natural Questions (7:25:4-5), p. 279 – for secular Humanism, the best is yet to come
– for secular Humanism, the best is yet to come
<p>Whatever I understood of the arts of grammar and rhetoric, of dialectic, geometry, music and arithmetic, without much difficulty or tuition from anyone, I understood because my swift intelligence and keen wits were your gift: you know, O Lord my God.</p>
Confessions (4:16(30))
<p>In the [last seventy years] or so, we have advanced from not knowing the identity of our genetic material to learning the medium of its message is DNA, to cracking the genetic code, to sequencing genomes to create new life … It is hard to imagine where [this] will take us in the next seventy years, but wherever this new era of biology is heading, I know that voyage will be as empowering as it is extraordinary.</p>
Life at the Speed of Light (12), p. 187
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