Sentences with phrase «supposed center of the universe»

In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus knocked Earth and humanity from the supposed center of the universe by noting that Earth goes around the sun, not the other way around.

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We must first accept the displacement of the world from its supposed position as the immovable center of the universe.
An infant is supposed to experience herself as the center of the universe.
State Chairman Ed Cox, who has not yet announced a new date for his own annual dinner (it was supposed to take place this Thursday), congratulated Isaacs and said Perry's attendance at the event «proves that New York is still the center of the universe, for politics and otherwise.»
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