If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would… — 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… — 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… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should… — 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
If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer? — 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 my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet… — 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