It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Johannes Kepler More Quotes by Johannes Kepler More Quotes From Johannes Kepler Nature uses as little as possible of anything. Johannes Kepler simplicity nature science My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight. Johannes Kepler animal science believe If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth. Johannes Kepler wall ignorance dream If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density. Johannes Kepler distance moon fall The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind. Johannes Kepler astrology stars baby [God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing. Johannes Kepler creator kind I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects. Johannes Kepler god believe ideas After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain. Johannes Kepler writing believe book 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. Johannes Kepler moon sea water Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa. Johannes Kepler vice-versa quality vices Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God Johannes Kepler geometry shining mind 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. Johannes Kepler stars morning lying 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. Johannes Kepler elements mind order Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. Johannes Kepler focus sun moving We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way. Johannes Kepler orbs kind way I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the figures the meanings of the demonstrations, meanings which I myself originally put into the figures and the text from my mind. But when I attempt to remedy the obscurity of the material by putting in extra words, I see myself falling into the opposite fault of becoming chatty in something mathematical. Johannes Kepler reading science fall Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes. Johannes Kepler eye men history If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be. Johannes Kepler nature god book Eyesight should learn from reason. Johannes Kepler mystery reason science Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it. Johannes Kepler sphere-of-influence substance body
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