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

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler
Age: 58 †
Born: 1571
Born: December 21
Died: 1630
Died: November 15
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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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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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Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
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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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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority in philosophy the predominance of reason.
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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
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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.
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The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.
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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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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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Nature loves simplicity and unity.
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I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
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I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
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If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.
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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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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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