Johannes Kepler Quotes

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

I am a great believer in research and innovation.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Research, research, research. It means everything.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build.