Quotes of Johannes Kepler - somelinesforyou

“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet. Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet. Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the skies so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet. Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was skybound, the shadow of my body lies here. [Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died] ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. The Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo. However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. The Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain. ”

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. ”

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times. ”

- Johannes Kepler

“ 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

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

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ Nature uses as little as possible of anything. ”

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ 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

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

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

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

- Johannes Kepler

“ 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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