Johannes Kepler Quotes
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
Citations
Kepler, Johannes. The Harmony of the World. 1619. Translated by E.J. Aiton, A.M. Duncan, and J.V. Field, American Philosophical Society, 1997, p. 391.
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Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution, best known for his laws of planetary motion, and his books Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae. These works also provided one of the foundations for Newton's theory of universal gravitation.