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Galileo and Kepler had "dangerous thoughts" (as they are called in Japan), and so have the most intelligent men of our own day.
— Bertrand Russell
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
— Johannes Kepler
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
— Johannes Kepler
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
— Johannes Kepler
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
— Johannes Kepler
The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.
— Johannes Kepler
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
— Johannes Kepler
O God, I'm merely thinking you're thoughts after you.
— Johann Kepler
[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.
— Carl Sagan
These three laws of Kepler give a complete description of the motion of the planets around the sun.
— Anonymous
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
— Johannes Kepler
The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.
— Johannes Kepler
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
— Johannes Kepler
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
— Johannes Kepler
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
— Johannes Kepler
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
— Johannes Kepler
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
— Johannes Kepler
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.
— Johannes Kepler
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?
— Johannes Kepler
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
— Johannes Kepler
Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
— Lars Kepler
If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.
— Johannes Kepler
Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests
— Johannes Kepler
in 1620 Kepler's mother was being tried for witchcraft.
— James A. Connor
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
— Johannes Kepler
Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.
— Johannes Kepler
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
— Johannes Kepler
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
— Johannes Kepler
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
— Johannes Kepler
Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
— Johannes Kepler
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
— Johannes Kepler
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ... prior to the other categories.
— Johannes Kepler
The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
— Johannes Kepler
before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind
— Johannes Kepler
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
— Johannes Kepler
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
— Johannes Kepler
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
— Johannes Kepler
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ...
— Johannes Kepler
The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.
— Auguste Comte
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
— Johannes Kepler
For a long time I wanted to become a theologian ... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.
— Johannes Kepler
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
— Johannes Kepler
In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.
— Johannes Kepler
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
— Johannes Kepler
I used to measure the heavens
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here — Johannes Kepler
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here — Johannes Kepler
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.
— Johannes Kepler
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. — Johannes Kepler
Wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.
— Johannes Kepler
Eyesight should learn from reason.
— Johannes Kepler