Johannes Kepler

"I was almost driven to madness in considering and calculating this matter. I could not find out why the planet would rather go on an elliptical orbit. Oh, ridiculous me! As the liberation in the diame…"

"Either... the moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common center, forcing them all round, but…"

"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 …"

"Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity."

"Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction , so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth."

"If you want the exact moment in time, it was conceived mentally on 8th March in this year one thousand six hundred and eighteen, but submitted to calculation in an unlucky way, and therefore rejected …"

"It is not improbable, I must point out, that there are inhabitants not only on the moon but on Jupiter too, or that those areas are now being unveiled for the first time. But as soon as somebody demon…"

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