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

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler
Age: 58 †
Born: 1571
Born: December 21
Died: 1630
Died: November 15
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Nature loves simplicity and unity.
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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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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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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
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Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
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When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.
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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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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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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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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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Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
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O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!
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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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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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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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