It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. — 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
Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean… — 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
![“If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/71b/johannes-kepler-4278_book_if-this-the-mysterium-cosmographicum-is_3106407.jpg)
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