Heaven Quotes by Johannes Kepler

9 Heaven quotes by Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler’s nine succinct thoughts on heaven show how his scientific mind also turned toward the divine. The short set still reflects his wonder at the order of the cosmos.

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We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for…

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I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for…

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Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

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I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies…

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The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,…

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Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify…

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As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon…

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My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and…

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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing…

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Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

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If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to…

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If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so…

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Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not…

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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…

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[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

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Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a…

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If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth,…

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Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

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Where there is matter, there is geometry.

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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the…

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So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval,…

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Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary…

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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts…

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