I'm confused. Wasn't it Copernicus who went outside and saw the world and the priests who stayed inside and relied on the book?

I'm done too. It's really ridiculous that those who want to talk about a subject have to wade through those who want to stop it. I'll never understand why anyone cares. But of course the end result is the same. Learning stops. The established beliefs continue.

Hey, I feel like Copernicus arguing with the priests! (Of course, he never did, you know.)

Gothe on Copernicus:
"No wonder his contemporaries did not wish to let all this go and offered every possible resistance to a doctrine which in its converts authorized and demanded a freedom of view and greatness of thought so far unknown, indeed not even dreamed of."