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Johannes Kepler

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My dear Kepler, wh...
GALILEO GALILEI I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as GALILEO GALILEI The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people an...
RICHARD FEYNMAN What we are trying to do is observe [planets] eclipsing their stars. Kepler will be put into space t...
DIMITAR SASSELOV It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer...
JOHANNES KEPLER Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
JOHANNES KEPLER The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so ri...
JOHANNES KEPLER The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so ric...
JOHANNES KEPLER I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it...
JOHANNES KEPLER I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the ...
JOHANNES KEPLER Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of JOHANNES KEPLER The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
JOHANNES KEPLER Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
JOHANNES KEPLER So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the h...
JOHANNES KEPLER I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound...
JOHANNES KEPLER We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity...
JOHANNES KEPLER Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
JOHANNES KEPLER If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...
JOHANNES KEPLER After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himsel...
JOHANNES KEPLER Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the fu...
JOHANNES KEPLER Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia exi...
JOHANNES KEPLER The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just...
SETH SHOSTAK But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
DAVID LEVITHAN Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
STEPHEN LEACOCK I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
BILL WALSH When I am in balance with the vibration of the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets I am ultimat...
DEBBIE A. ANDERSON This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospe...
SETH SHOSTAK Focus on destination gives impetus to move forward with purpose & confidence. The joy involved makes...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every t...
THOMAS MORE I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
ISSAC MARION The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. B...
JACK MCDEVITT Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Witho...
SETH SHOSTAK The chemical and isotopic composition of the sun is the starting composition from which all planets ...
DON BURNETT The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around ...
BOHDAN PACZYNSKI Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planet...
SETH SHOSTAK I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's ...
OLIVIA THIRLBY The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of g...
GALILEO GALILEI The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of ...
GALILEO GALILEI That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing...
ANDREW GOULD Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the an...
IRVIN D. YALOM What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose ...
RICHELLE MEAD Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at
BRENT M. JONES Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze...
ALBERT PIKE The formation of our own Sun and planets probably was heavily influenced, if not triggered, by a nea...
JAY LOCKMAN The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate th...
BARNEY OLIVER I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
ISAAC MARION I was pretty good at planets in our solar system, so I thought, well, it?s not much of a stretch to ...
LYNETTE COOK Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of exis...
ANDREW GOULD It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissol...
MAX HEINDEL Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everyth...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...
MICHIO KAKU This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and ...
ISAAC NEWTON This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...
ISAAC NEWTON When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to se...
THICH NHAT HANH Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latte...
SETH SHOSTAK We'll move forward in the months between now and June and anticipate significantly more focus at our...
DAVE OGREAN He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her a...
LEO TOLSTOY Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Hey Johannes, send some forwards, midfielders and defenders back here.
COLLIN WALCH It seems that Kepler is looking for a fight.
GRAEME SMITH a miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each...
J.K. ROWLING You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the
LEO TOLSTOY The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances ...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Sun is ill equipped to be the low-cost hardware provider. It's the right move to move towards softwa...
DION CORNETT Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his ...
SARAH DUNANT Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to b...
ERICK T. YOUNG One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one...
JACQUELINE LEO Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always...
WILFRED OWEN Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfe...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG We're shifting our energy to focus on getting ready for this move but our doors are not closing at a...
JEN DIBBLE Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,
ALAN BOSS I saw one at a Lakeland Fun 'N' Sun fly-in. At the time, I owned a Cessna 170, but decided I wanted ...
DOUGLAS FULTON The brightest of even one of these stars at the distance of the sun could charge a solar powered car...
JEAN TURNER You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers...
SOL WACHTLER Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
SEBASTIAN THRUN After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people ...
GUNTER BLOBEL Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have...
ERNST MAYR Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have...
HARALD ZUR HAUSEN I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acc...
ERNST MAYR I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in aca...
SEBASTIAN THRUN As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populati...
ERNST MAYR In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant mea...
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Yet still your hair foams violet ...
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JACQUELINE JOHANNES It was really nerve racking.
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