Best Johannes Kepler Sayings
- We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we… Ask
- The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the… Alone
- Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. Ellipses
- The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times. Areas
- The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances. Cubes
- The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and… Animal
- 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… Aim
- 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… Calls
- I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Appreciate
- The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human… Diversity
- Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Little
- I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph] Body
- When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of… Cause
- The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars. All
- Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and… All
- ...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy. Astronomy
- Why are things as they are and not otherwise? Funny
- I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne… All
- So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things Cause