The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share
![“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg)
