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Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.

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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Daughter, Midwife, Mother, Shame, Time

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. . . . Who would have believed that a huge ocean could be crossed more peacefully and safely than the the narrow expanse of the Adriatic, the Baltic Sea or the English Channel? Provide ship or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will not fear even that void [of space]. . . . So, for those who will come shortly to attempt this journey, let us establish the astronomy: Galileo, you of Jupiter, I of the Moon.

Art, Astronomy, Future, Ocean, Provide, Sea

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Desire, Everywhere, God, Manner, Perceive, World

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

Discover, Men, Recognised, Skies, Sky, Use

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.

Colours, Ear, Eye, Mind, Sound, Understand

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God. . . Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

Creation, Geometry, God, Mind, Provided

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.

Allow, Ask, Mathematical, Philosophical, Philosophy, Science

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

Math, Mean, Measure, Name, Precious Jewels, Treasures

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nature, Possible, Science, Simplicity

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.

Earth, Moon, Movements, Substance, Water, Waters

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.

Composition, Deduced, Elements, Mind, Order, Quite

Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.

Birth, Creating, Down, God, Humanity, Mind

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

Body, Conjunction, Earth, Gravity, Kind, Unions

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

Differences, Durer, Mars, Oval, Science, True

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Science, Things

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

Creation, Eye, Fact, God, Taken, World

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

Astrology, Dirty, Foundations, Mule, Time

He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person. . . With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

Causes, Come, Display, Doe, Miracle, Proclaim

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Brought, Creator, Forth, God, Kind, Nature

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.

Astrology, Baby, Kind, Newly, Sensitive, Stars

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