"Why are things as they are and not…" — Johannes Kepler

"Why are things as they are and not otherwise?"

— Johannes Kepler

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69 Quotes by Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile…
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes…
After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every…
If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home…
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one…
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could…
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far…
If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we…
I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's…
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms…
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

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