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Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler
Age: 58 †
Born: 1571
Born: December 21
Died: 1630
Died: November 15
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Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.
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Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.
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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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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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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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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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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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...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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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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The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.
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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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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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I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
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I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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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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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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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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So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
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