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I s'pose, I can't have it all my own way, can I? You can't drown in a person unless they let you.

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Johannes Kepler

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
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

Accorded, Geometry, God, Math, Reasons, Science

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

Cubes, Distance, Distances, Mean, Squares

I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork. . . insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a single, quite simple magnetic force. This physical conception is to be presented through calculation and geometry.

Magnetic, Mean, Motions, Organism, Science, Simple

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

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
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