Cosmological Principle

The Cosmological Principle and the Copernican Principle are philosophies which state that humans on the Earth or in the Solar System are not privileged observers of the universe. Due to this philosophy astronomical observations must consequently be interpreted under the context of current astronomical theories, regardless of what reality might otherwise suggest. Read the following quote carefully:

Below are miscellaneous quotes from astronomers and authors remarking that we appear to be at the center of the universe.

Cosmological Redshift
The galaxies we see are redshifted in a way that doesn't really make sense, and the implication is that we are the center of the universe. The cosmological redshift is known as Hubble’s law, and postulated that the known universe is expanding. Hypothetical mechanisms were put in place to change the observation and its implications from redshift and blueshit of light into the metric expansion of space and time, otherwise known as the Expanding Universe.

See this quote from Edwin Hubble:

Stephen Hawking says: