Goethe said that the doctrine of Copernicus was the only one that had a great effect on the human spirit above all.
For the first time in the human history men renounced the privilege of being the center of the Universe, it gave a freedom of vision and greatness of thought.
Goethe was a great influence for the modern culture, art and science. He concieved the individual as a small world, existing by his own means as a result of the Copernicus Heliocentrism theory.