Johannes Kepler Quotes

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

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  Intelligent, Men, Appreciate

  "(K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication" by Gloria Pierre, (p. 147), 2005.

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

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  Thinking, Process, Thinking God

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• The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.

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  Math, Order, World

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• The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.

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  Moon, Heaven, Soul

  "Methodist Review", vol. 55, (pp. 187 - 88), 1873.

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• 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 declare the glory of God.'

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  Heaven, Becoming, Astronomy

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• Where there is matter, there is geometry.

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  Math, Science, Matter

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• Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

  Johannes Kepler

  Science

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• 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.

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  God, Desire, World

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• Nature loves simplicity and unity.

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  Simplicity, Unity, Consciousness

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• Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

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  Book, Thoughtful, Mind

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• The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.

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  Baby, Stars, Astrology

  "Harmonices Mundi". Book by Johannes Kepler, 1618.

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• It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

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  Knowledge, Eye, Science

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• Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

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  Experiments

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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

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  Atheist, Miracle, Explanation

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• Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

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  World, Mathematics, Geometry

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

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  Kind, Creator

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• Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

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  Daughter, Mother, Time

  "The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation" by Shafique N. Virani, (p. 28), 2007.

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• The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

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  Song, Voice, Ears

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

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  Bird, Singing, Littles

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• Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

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  Moon, Heaven, Honor

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• O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

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  Knowledge, Science, Telescopes

  "The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei and a Part of the Preface to Kepler's Dioptrics Containing the Original Account of Galileo's Astronomical Discoveries".

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

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  Stars, Men, Void

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

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  Reading, Science, Men

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• The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. It is therefore, no longer surprising that man, in imitation of his creator, has at last discovered the art of figured song, which was unknown to the ancients. Man wanted to reproduce the continuity of cosmic time... to obtain a sample test of the delight of the Divine Creator in His works, and to partake of his joy by making music in the imitation of God.

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  Song, Art, Men

  "The Sleepwalkers". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

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  Believe, Animal, Design

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