Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious…

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

“My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the stupidity of the human herd. What do you have to say about the…

— Galileo Galilei

“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

Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the…

— Humphry Davy