[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets. — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
“the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.… — Scott E. Page Copy Share Image
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.’17 The same… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin… — Jen-Hsun Huang Copy Share Image
“Kepler’s second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. It takes as long to travel from B to A… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can… — Claire North Copy Share Image
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Naturally, we think that finding another Earth-like planet is identifying a site that's at least friendly here for the evolution of life.… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
“The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.'… — C. Smoryński Copy Share Image
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as you in my search for truth. I will read your work… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Kepler’s third or harmonic law states that the squares of the periods of the planets (the times for them to complete one… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler 's or Newton 's discoveries could become known to people in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Magnetism is, of course, not the same as gravity, but Kepler’s fundamental innovation here is nothing short of breathtaking: he proposed that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“THE DANGEROUS VICE OF ASKING Which is worth more? Experience or doctrine? By dropping stones and pebbles, big balls and little balls,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The Somnium makes clear to us, although it did not to all of Kepler’s contemporaries, that “in a dream one must be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
![“[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/carl-sagan-160_hard_kepler-preferred-the-hard-truth-to-his-d_1407122.jpg)
![“I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e0/johannes-kepler-4278_body_i-measured-the-skies-now-the-shadows-i-m_726885.png)
![“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was fascinated by Proclus and often quotes him calling him a 'Pythagorean'. [History of Mathematics]” quote by C. Smoryński](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68c/c-smory-ski-225321_euclid_kepler-followed-proclus-and-believed-tha_2944745.jpg)
![“Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not…” quote by Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70c/galileo-galilei-2377_argument_oh-my-dear-kepler-how-i-wish-that-we-cou_2820576.jpg)
![“[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the…” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/henry-adams-1542_attraction_p-olitical-and-social-and-scientific-val_2213281.png)
![“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/albert-einstein-33_glimpse_what-a-deep-trust-in-the-rationality-of_1936444.jpg)
![“[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work…” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b3/albert-einstein-33_attitude_kepler-had-to-realize-clearly-that-logic_1864705.jpg)
![“[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.” quote by Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8d/albert-einstein-33_acknowledge_newton-wrote-to-halley-that-he-would-not_344363.jpg)
