Johannes Kepler

I have often wondered why the rain falls, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the snow melts, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the ice freezes, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the thunder rumbles, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the lightning flashes, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the earthquakes shake, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the volcanoes erupt, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the tides rise and fall, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the seasons change, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the days lengthen and shorten, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the years pass, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have often wondered why the centuries turn, but I have never found a satisfactory answer.

I have attested it in my works, and I attest it now, that I have taken the greatest pains to discover the truth.

The ways by which men arrive at knowledge are various, but the goal is one.

Geometry, which is co-eternal with God before the creation of things, provided God with patterns for the creation of the world, and was implanted into man, together with the image of God, so that he might be able to recognize God's handiwork.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature has been so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind should never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

I have sinned, O Lord, by writing a book which I should not have written, or at least not in this way.

The Earth is a living creature, and the Moon is its heart.

I have tried to show that the celestial machine is not a kind of divine, living being, but a clockwork.

The more I study the heavens, the more I am convinced that the Earth is the center of the universe.