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
cause hidden safe
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things
math matter geometry
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
god book writing
I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.
atheist miracle explanation
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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.
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.
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.
fundamentals categories features
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.
astrology nonsense hard
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
kind creator
[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.
shining mind geometry
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
philosophical mathematics pleasure
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.
growing-up knowledge animal
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.
vectors equal radius
The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.