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> [The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johannes-kepler/the-heavenly-bodies-are-nothing-but-a-continuous-song-for-several/)

[Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johannes-kepler/)

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## 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/)

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