119 Quotes by Johannes Kepler
"...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life."
"There will certainly be no lack of human pioneers when we have mastered the art of flight....Let us create vessels and sails justed to the heavenly ether, and there will be plenty of people unafraid of the empty wastes. In the meantime we shall prepare, for the brave sky-travelers, maps of the celestial bodies."
"Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation..."
"A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief."
"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."
"God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?"
"...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy."
"Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens."