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Johannes Kepler

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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.


— Johannes Kepler


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For a long time, I wanted to become a theologian. Now, however, behold, how through my efforts God is being glorified through astronomy.


— Johannes Kepler


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Nature uses as little as possible of anything.


— Johannes Kepler


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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.


— Johannes Kepler


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I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.


— Johannes Kepler


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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.


— Johannes Kepler


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The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.


— Johannes Kepler


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


— Johannes Kepler


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Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.


— Johannes Kepler


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


— Johannes Kepler


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About Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler Quotes




Did you know about Johannes Kepler?

In his calendars—six between 1617 and 1624—Kepler forecast planetary positions and weather as well as political events; the latter were often cannily accurate thanks to his keen grasp of contemporary political and theological tensions. inverted images and the effects of focal length on magnification and reduction. Beginning in August 1620 Johannes Kepler was imprisoned for fourteen months.

During his career Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz Austria where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. He was also a mathematics teacher in Linz Austria and an adviser to General Wallenstein. Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work motivated by the religious conviction and belief that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan that is accessible through the natural light of reason.

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