George F. R. Ellis
"I can construct for you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations. "
Albert Michelson
"The conclusion (of the Michelson interferometer experiment) contradicts the explanation that the Earth moves"
Einstein
"I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment."
"The two sentences 'the sun is at rest and the earth moves,' or 'the sun moves and the earth is at rest' are simply two different conventions concerning two different coordinate systems"
Max Tegmark
"The pendulum has swung all the way and started to come back on the Copernican principle."
Isaac Newton
"celestial bodies can move around the Earth at rest, as in the Tychonic system."
Henrick Lorentz
"Briefly, everything occurs as if the Earth were at rest."
Henri Poincaré
"A great deal of research has been carried out concerning the influence of the Earth's movement. The results were always negative."
Steven Weinberg
"If we were to adopt a frame of reference like Tycho's in which the Earth is at rest, then the distant galaxies would seem to be executing circular turns once a year, and in general relativity this enormous motion would create forces akin to gravitation, which would act on the Sun and planets and give them the motions of the Tychonic theory."
Stephen Hawking
"our observations of the heavens can be explained by assuming either the earth or the sun to be at rest."
"if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe... or the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy, too... We have no scientific evidence for, or against, this assumption."
Edwin Hubble
"This hypothesis (of a central Earth) cannot be disproved, but it is unwelcome and would only be accepted as a last resort"
"We disregard this possibility. The unwelcome position of a favored location must be avoided at all costs."
"Such a favored position is intolerable".
Lawrence Krauss
"when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun...That would say we are truly the center of the universe."