...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
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to… — Johannes Kepler 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
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful,… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an… — 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
Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation... — 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
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