Kepler Quotes

The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

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.

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.

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

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

Geometria est archetypus pulchritudinis mundi-Mathematics is the archetype of the beauty of the world-Kepler

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies