Johannes Kepler Quotes

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

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

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.

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.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

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.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

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

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

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

Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Eyesight should learn from reason.

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

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

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.