--- title: "4 Celestial Quotes By Johannes Kepler" description: "4 Celestial quotes by Johannes Kepler. Plus more from Johannes Kepler and more Celestial sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg" --- > [ I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes \[of motions in the Solar System\]. My aim in this is… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigation-of-the-physical-causes-of/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg) > [The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/the-roads-by-which-men-arrive-at-their-insights-into-celestial/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/johannes-kepler-4278_awe_the-roads-by-which-men-arrive-at-their-i_1281956.png) > [The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/the-wisdom-of-the-lord-is-infinite-as-are-also-his-glory-and-his/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09f/johannes-kepler-4278_celestial_the-wisdom-of-the-lord-is-infinite-as-ar_2099478.png) > [There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight…Let us create vessels and sails…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/there-will-certainly-be-no-lack-of-human-pioneers-when-we-have/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/666/johannes-kepler-4278_art_there-will-certainly-be-no-lack-of-human_2137254.jpg) ## Other authors on Celestial - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brigham-young-19723.jpg) Brigham Young 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial/brigham-young/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neal-a-maxwell-70598.jpg) Neal A. Maxwell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial/neal-a-maxwell/) ## More by Johannes Kepler > [Why are things as they are and not otherwise?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/why-are-things-as-they-are-and-not-otherwise/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/if-the-moon-and-earth-were-not-retained-in-their-orbits-by-their/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/if-god-himself-has-waited-six-thousand-years-for-someone-to/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/those-laws-are-within-the-grasp-of-the-human-mind-god-wanted-us-to/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/just-as-the-eye-was-made-to-see-colours-and-the-ear-to-hear-sounds-so/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/i-had-the-intention-of-becoming-a-theologian-but-now-i-see-how-god-is/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [ \[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,\] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/quantity-is-the-fundamental-feature-of-things-the-primarium-accidens/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/repudiating-the-sensible-world-which-he-neither-sees-himself-nor/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/if-the-earth-were-not-round-heavy-bodies-would-not-tend-from-every/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/wherever-there-are-qualities-there-are-likewise-quantities-but-not/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [Where there is matter, there is geometry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/where-there-is-matter-there-is-geometry/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/the-soul-of-the-newly-born-baby-is-marked-for-life-by-the-pattern-of/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [ So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet \[Mars\] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/so-fabricius-i-already-have-this-that-the-most-true-path-of-the/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/ships-and-sails-proper-for-the-heavenly-air-should-be-fashioned-then/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) > [Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/gravity-is-a-mutual-affection-between-cognate-bodies-towards-union-or/) [Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/celestial/johannes-kepler/#itemlist", "name": "4 Celestial Quotes By Johannes Kepler", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. 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