Astronomy Quote by Johannes Kepler

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

— Johannes Kepler

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

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

— Johannes Kepler

...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

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

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

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

— Johannes Kepler

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

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

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

— Johannes Kepler

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

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