Best Johannes Kepler Quotes
- When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships. Been
- It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Century
- Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God Eternal
- The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… Aim
- The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify… All
- Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the… All
- Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first… Compare
- Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness… Air
- As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… Adapted
- If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me… Along
- Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him. God
- We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of… Any
- Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world… Believe
- Eyesight should learn from reason. Eyesight
- Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens. Astronomy
- There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the… Art
- My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside… Desire
- The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves. Arrive
- Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as… Astrological
- I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel. Astrologer
- Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation... Co
- The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which… Continuous
- I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings… Attempt
- As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… Adapted
- Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world. Archetype