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- Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
- What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. — Mark Twain
- Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. — Henry David Thoreau
- Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. — Nicolaus Copernicus
- Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms. — Nicolaus Copernicus
- We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. — Nicolaus Copernicus