Johannes Kepler Quotes & Sayings

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

“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”

“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.”

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”

“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”

“The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.”

“The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.”