Johannes Kepler
10 quotes
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. As quoted by Shafique N. Virani, The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) p. 28.”
“Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.”
“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven”
“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. As quoted by Gloria Pierre, (K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication (2005) p. 147.”
“There is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move. Essay dedicated to the Archduke Ferdinand , as quoted by Max Caspar, Kepler (1993) Sect. II, Ch. 9, p. 110.”
“In Terra inest virtus, quae Lunam del.”
“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. 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. As quoted by Carl Sagan Cosmos”
“Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.”
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything. As quoted by W. H. Auden , Louis Kronenberger , Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection (1920) p. 98; also by Joseph Silk, The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology”
“My goal is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living being but similar to a clockwork insofar as all the manifold motions are taken care of by one single absolutely simple magnetic bodily force, as in a clockwork all motion is taken care of by a simple weight. And indeed I also show how this physical representation can be presented by calculation and geometrically. Letter to Herwart von Hohenberg (Feb 10, 1605) Johannes Kepler, Gessamelte Werke , 15:146, quoted in Max Caspar, Kepler”