Johannes Kepler Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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]
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.
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.
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
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.
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.
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.
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 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
Now the Earth's shadows I measure
My mind was in the heavens,
Now the shadow of my body rests here
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.