"I used to measure the Heavens, now I……" — Johannes Kepler
"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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Johannes Kepler
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69 Quotes by Johannes Kepler
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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…
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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes…
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every…
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home…
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one…
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Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could…
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I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far…
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we…
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It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms…
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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…
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