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

  Johannes Kepler

  Book, Years, Waiting

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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.

  Johannes Kepler

  Order, Diversity, Heaven

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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

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  Mind, Creation, Geometry

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

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  Spring, Order, Fountain

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• There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies.

  Johannes Kepler

  Art, Science, Sky

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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.

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  Eye, Mind, Sound

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

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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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• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

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  Home, Fate, Men

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

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  Mean, Animal, Astrology

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

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• Eyesight should learn from reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Mystery, Reason

  Johannes Kepler (1995). “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: & Harmonies of the World”, Prometheus Books

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• Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

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  Nature, Science, Simplicity

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection" by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, (p. 98), 1920.

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

  Johannes Kepler

  Astrology, Nonsense, Kernel

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• Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

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  Art, Thinking, Sky

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• ...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life.

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  Law, Creating, Understanding

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• Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

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  Mean, Math, Jewels

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

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  Quality, Vices, Vice Versa

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

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

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  Long, Effort, Astronomy

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

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  Philosophy, Atheism, Reason

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• We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

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  Way, Orbs, Kind

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• As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.

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  Art, Moon, Men

  Johannes Kepler (1965). “Kepler's Conversation with Galileo's Sidereal messenger”

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• Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

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  Shining, Mind, Geometry

  "Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays" edited by P. Curry, (p. 154), 1987.

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

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  Sky, Mind, Shadow

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• Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.

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  Creating, Humanity, Mind

  "Kepler, Four Hundred Years" edited by Arthur and Peter Beer, 1975.

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