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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

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.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

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 myself.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

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

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

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 of space.

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

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

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

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ...

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

For a long time I wanted to become a theologian ... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

I used to measure the heavens
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.