Johannes Kepler Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Animal, Design

• My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Science, Animal

  "New Science Theory". Book by Vincent Wilmot, p.68,

• We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.

  Johannes Kepler

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

• wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

  Johannes Kepler

  Animal, Body, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Fall, Moon

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

• God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?

  Johannes Kepler

  Mean, Animal, Astrology

  "The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science". Book by Edwin Arthur Burtt, 1925.

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