Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question. — 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
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. — 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
“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
“ Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special]… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight…Let us create vessels and sails… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls… — 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
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — 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
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet . Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre! — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for… — 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
“After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars,… — 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
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
![“Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo . However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/db1/johannes-kepler-4278_creation_priusquam-autem-ad-creationem-hoc-est-ad_2156237.jpg)
![“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here. [ Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died ]” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4cb/johannes-kepler-4278_earth_i-used-to-measure-the-skies-now-i-measur_2088095.jpg)
![“So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6b/johannes-kepler-4278_differences_so-fabricius-i-already-have-this-that-th_311054.jpg)
![“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg)
![“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fde/johannes-kepler-4278_cautious_it-is-a-right-yes-a-duty-to-search-in-ca_1590640.jpg)
![“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)
![“[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4a1/johannes-kepler-4278_categories_quantity-is-the-fundamental-feature-of-t_150994.jpg)
