Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Keplerwas a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth27 December 1571
CountryGermany
jesus believe christ
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
moon heaven honor
Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.
quality vices vice-versa
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
god believe ideas
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
order mind matter
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.
dream wall ignorance
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.
world mathematics geometry
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
fundamentals categories features
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
home fate men
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.
morning stars lying
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.
knowledge telescopes instruments
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
astrology nonsense hard
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
moon water movement
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.
kind creator
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.