“So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.”
— Johannes Kepler
“I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism, but rather a clockwork.”
— Johannes Kepler
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
— Johannes Kepler
“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”
— Johannes Kepler