I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing. — 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
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also… — 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
The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all… — 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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
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 Image