"The solar system is off center and consequently man is too, which is a rather nice idea because it means that man is not such a big chicken. He is incidental – my favorite term is peripheral."
— Solar System

January 1, 1970

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Just as Copernicus in the sixteenth century had removed the Earth from the center of the Solar System, Shapley relocated the Solar System from the heart of the Milky Way.