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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, with both eyes open.

Source: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, 1543.
-- Nicolas Copernicus, (Feb 19 1473-1543), Polish astronomer; He was first to propose that planets revolved around the sun; wrote Mathematics of a Heliocentric Solar System, 1543.

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