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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority in philosophy the predominance of reason.

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 had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare 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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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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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 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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Where there is matter, there is geometry.
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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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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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