Planets Quotes by Johannes Kepler

8 Planets quotes by Johannes Kepler

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Kepler’s pioneering eye for planetary motion shines in eight short statements, offering a window into the foundations of modern astronomy.

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So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls…

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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

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Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify…

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On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation…

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Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving…

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The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon,…

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A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has…

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The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy…

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Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

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If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to…

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If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so…

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Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not…

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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…

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[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

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Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a…

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If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth,…

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Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

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Where there is matter, there is geometry.

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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the…

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So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval,…

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Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary…

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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts…

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