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

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Johannes Kepler
Age: 58 †
Born: 1571
Born: December 21
Died: 1630
Died: November 15
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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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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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Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
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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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The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body.
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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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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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Eyesight should learn from reason.
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.
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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.
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[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
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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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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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