Johannes Kepler Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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?

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

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  Atheist, Miracle, Explanation

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

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  World, Mathematics, Geometry

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

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  Kind, Creator

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• We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

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  Song, Heaven, Bird

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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

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  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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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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• 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.

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  Men, Matter, Wonder

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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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• The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

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  Order, Diversity, Heaven

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

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  God, Book, Writing

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