Johannes Kepler Quotes
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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.
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Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
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The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
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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? Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
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The squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances from the sun.
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In Terra inest virtus, quae Lunam del.
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The Earth sings Mi-Fa-Mi, so we can gather ever from this that Misery and Famine reign in our habitat.
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Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.