Discover a collection of 81 powerful quotes by Johannes Kepler that will enlighten and inspire you. Dive into the mind of this genius astronomer and mathematician as he shares his profound insights on the universe, science, and life itself. Immerse yourself in Kepler’s wisdom and let his words ignite your imagination and expand your horizons.
Johannes Kepler Quotes
1- “The Earth sings Mi-Fa-Mi, so we can gather ever from this that Misery and Famine reign in our habitat.” – Johannes Kepler
2- “And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry.” – Johannes Kepler
3- “If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.” -Johannes Kepler
4- “Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned.” Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609.” -Johannes Kepler
5- “I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.” -Johannes Kepler
6- “The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.” -Johannes Kepler
7- “The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises., sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ineffable language! Praise Him, celestial harmonies, and all ye who can comprehend them! And thou, my soul, praise thy Creator! It is by Him and in Him that all exist.” -Johannes Kepler
8- “The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.” -Johannes Kepler
9- “God gives every animal the means of saving its life—why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?” -Johannes Kepler
10- “The harnessing to a rational pursuit of the immense psychic energies derived from an irrational obsession seems to be another secret of genius, at least of genius of a certain type.” -Johannes Kepler
11-“However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.” -Johannes Kepler
12- “When the storm rages and the shipwreck of the state threatens, we can do nothing more worthy than to sink the anchor of our peaceful studies into the ground of eternity.” -Johannes Kepler
13- “[the] motions [of Mars] provide the only possible access to the hidden secrets of astronomy, without which we would remain forever ignorant of those secrets.” -Johannes Kepler
14- “The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.” -Johannes Kepler
15- “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
16- “Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.” -Johannes Kepler
17- “Astronomy has two ends, to save the appearances and to contemplate the true form of the edifice of the world.” -Johannes Kepler
18- “The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.” -Johannes Kepler
19- “I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body’s shadow lies here.” -Johannes Kepler
20- “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.”
31- “There are as many comets in the sky as fishes in the ocean…” -Johannes Kepler
32- “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
33- “I am well aware how fond you are of Nothing, not so much for low price as for the sport, as delightful as it is witty, that it affords your pert sparrow; and so I can really guess that the closer a gift comes to Nothing the more welcome and acceptable it will be to you.” -Johannes Kepler
34- “Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.” -Johannes Kepler
35- “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
36- “Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?” -Johannes Kepler
37- “Prolixity of phrases has it own obscurity, no less than terse brevity. The latter evades the mind’s eye while the former distracts it; the one lacks the light while the other overwhelms with superfluous glitter; the latter does not arouse the sight while the former quite dazzles it.” -Johannes Kepler
38- “The roads by which men arrive at their insights into celestial matters seem to me almost as worthy of wonder as those matters in themselves.” -Johannes Kepler
39- “Depend upon it, the universe will never really be understood unless it may be sometime resolved into an ordered multiplicity and made to own itself an everlasting drama of the calculus.” -Johannes Kepler
40- “Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.” -Johannes Kepler
41- “… 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
42- “In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.” -Johannes Kepler
43- “I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.” -Johannes Kepler
44- “The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.” -Johannes Kepler
45- “Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.” -Johannes Kepler
46- “Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.” -Johannes Kepler
47- “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.” -Johannes Kepler
48- “The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.” -Johannes Kepler
49- “I wanted to become a theologian; for a long time I was unhappy. Now, behold, God is praised by my work even in astronomy.” -Johannes Kepler
50- “So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.” -Johannes Kepler
51- “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
52- “Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.” -Johannes Kepler
53- “As in every discipline, so in astronomy, too, the conclusions that we teach the reader are seriously intended, and our discussion is no mere game.” -Johannes Kepler
54- “O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.” -Johannes Kepler
55- “It is true that a divine voice, which enjoins humans to study astronomy, is expressed in the world itself, not in words or syllables, but in things themselves and in the conformity of the human intellect and senses with the sequence of celestial bodies and their disposition.” -Johannes Kepler
56- “Where there is matter, there is geometry.” -Johannes Kepler
57- Discover the force of the heavens O Men: Once recognized it can be put to use. -Johannes Kepler
58- “It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.” -Johannes Kepler
59- The very truth, and the nature of things, though repudiated and ordered into exile, sneaked in again through the back door, to be received by me under an unwonted guise. -Johannes Kepler
60- “Nature uses as little as possible of anything.” -Johannes Kepler
61- “I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.” -Johannes Kepler
62- “The testimony of the ages confirm that the motions of the planets are orbicular.” -Johannes Kepler
63- “Eyesight should learn from reason.” -Johannes Kepler
64- “There is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move.” -Johannes Kepler
65- “Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.” -Johannes Kepler
66- “The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.” -Johannes Kepler
67- “Why are things as they are and not otherwise?” -Johannes Kepler
68- “I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure Sky bound was the mind, Earthbound the body rests.” -Johannes Kepler
69- “Nature loves simplicity and unity.” -Johannes Kepler
70- “Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.” -Johannes Kepler
71- “So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.” -Johannes Kepler
72- “As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter… Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.” -Johannes Kepler
73- “Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.” -Johannes Kepler
74- “So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.” -Johannes Kepler
75- “I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.” -Johannes Kepler
76- “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
77- “The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.” -Johannes Kepler
78- “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.” -Johannes Kepler
79- “Telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any scepter! Is not he who holds thee in his hand made king and lord of the works of God?” -Johannes Kepler
80- “For astronomers ought not simply to enjoy a licence of making any fictions they choose without rational grounds.” -Johannes Kepler
81- “Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.” -Johannes Kepler
