Top 7 Kepler Quotes - Quoted Daily

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

Heart, Science, Kepler

My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

Galileo Galilei

Laughing, Kepler, Telescopes

Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in "The Crime of Galileo" by Giorgio De Santillana, 1955.

Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones.

Jen-Hsun Huang

Notebook, Energy, Kepler

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were introduced into science by the investigations of Kepler, Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Wallis. . . .

Sophus Lie

May, Kepler, Investigation

The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.

Auguste Comte

Heaven, Atheism, Kepler

All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is ascertained to be actually & verily science. The Ptolemaic Astronomy was barely able to prognosticate a lunar eclipse; with Kepler and Newton came Science and Prophecy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Science, Kepler, Tests

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer (1992). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Marginalia (5 v.)”, Bollingen

Experimental investigation, to borrow a phrase employed by Kepler respecting the testing of hypotheses, is "a very great thief of time." Sometimes it costs many days to determine a fact that can be stated in a line.

John William Draper

Science, Thieves, Kepler

John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub