I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound…

“I can scarcely measure the sky's most spacious eyes and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.”

— Pablo Neruda

“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies…

— Johannes Kepler

“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a…

— Claire North

“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their…

— Peter Høeg

“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that quantitative physical…

— Carl Sagan

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

— Debra Fischer

“THE DANGEROUS VICE OF ASKING Which is worth more? Experience or doctrine? By dropping stones and pebbles, big balls and little balls, Galileo Galilei…

— Eduardo Galeano

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein

“It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. … This double service assures to their discoverer…

— Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life. The primary…

— Debra Fischer

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier , Kepler ,…

— Anonymous

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent…

— Seth Shostak

Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a…

— Galileo Galilei

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into…

— Sophus Lie