Johannes Kepler (/ˈkɛplər/; German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
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.
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.
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
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.
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.