What if that Copernican insignificance was actually all wrong?

This tells us that that insignificance paradigm that we somehow got to learn from the Copernican principle, it's all wrong.

Today, we don t need to rely on such verbal descriptions of our planet s insignificance against the background of our galaxy.

An Indian beauty queen, Madhu Sapre, once became an unwitting victim of Indians sense of national shame at our sporting insignificance.

Compared to the numbers who fall ill with diseases such as HIV AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, however, leprosy almost pales into insignificance.

And half the time, what's happened is it's related this kind of sense of insignificance to humankind, to the Earth in a bigger space.

Employing CSF troops in the sensitive border region where jihadis have established their strongholds is similarly indicative of Sinai s insignificance in Egyptian military thought.

Yet, the international community allows poverty to destroy lives on a scale before which the impact of all of the world's natural disasters pales into insignificance.

In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.

In particular, owing to the relative insignificance of national party lists, Jordanians of Palestinian origin, who comprise nearly half the electorate, receive only a small percentage of elected officials.

However important NATO may be, it would be a dramatic admission of its own helplessness and insignificance if the EU were to remain silent on this crucial issue for Europe s future.

If a clean start is impossible, the best that can be done is to try to bury the old information with such an inflationary flood of new data that it simply dwindles into insignificance.

Second, the intervention once again highlights the strategic insignificance of the European Union, which is promoting a comprehensive strategy for Mali and the whole region in order to avoid the crucial question Under what conditions will Europe use force?

The ECB s newfound ability to print money, essentially without limit, to support both banks and governments has reduced Greek contagion to insignificance. That represents a profound change in Europe s financial environment, which Greek politicians, along with many economic analysts, still fail to understand.