Johannes Kepler Quotes
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were…
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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the…
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with…
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man…
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Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which…
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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of…
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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…
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I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
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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.…
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O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
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We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is…
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I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my…
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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 that…
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until…
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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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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 instructed and compelled…
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I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
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