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Thus God himself was too kind ...

Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Now, as God the maker play'd h...

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

In theology we must consider t...

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Where there is matter, there i...

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

If God himself has waited six ...

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

A most unfailing experience......

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.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

I measured the skies, now the ...

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

I believe the geometric propo...

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Nature loves simplicity and un...

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Do we ask what profit the litt...

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

I believe only and alone in th...

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

My aim is to say that the mach...

My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

On how the motion of a planet ...

On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere:
... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation of a great many revolutions that a kind of concave sphere is displayed, having the same center as the Sun, just as by a great many circles of silken thread, linked with each other and wound together, the dwelling of a silkworm is made.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

He who will please the crowd a...

He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Either... the moving intellige...

Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but those most violently which are nearest, and that it languishes in some sort and grows weaker at the most distant, because of the remoteness and the attenuation of the virtue.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Every corporeal substance, so ...

Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

Gravity is a mutual affection ...

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

wheresoever the earth may be p...

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

Johannes Kepler 102 quotes

If the earth were not round, h...

If the earth were not round, heavy bodies would not tend from every side in a straight line towards the center of the earth, but to different points from different sides.

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If two stones were placed... n...

If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.

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