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

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler
Age: 58 †
Born: 1571
Born: December 21
Died: 1630
Died: November 15
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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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Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.
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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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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
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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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The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.
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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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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
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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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