Johannes Kepler Berühmte Zitate
Erich Ch. Wittman, Elementargeometrie und Wirklichkeit: Einführung in geometrisches Denken, Springer-Verlag, 2013, S. 147, siehe auch w:en:kepler triangle
Original lat.: "Quo accedit et illud atque hercle indicem digitum ad causam harum rerum occultissimam intendit, quod proximo capite habebimus: duos nempe esse geometriae thesauros, unum: subtensae in rectangulo rationem ad latera, alterum: lineam extrema et raedia ratione sectam, quorum ex illo cubi, pyramidis et octaëdri constructio fluit, ex hoc vero constructio dodecaëdri et icosaëdri." - Mysterii Cosmographici Caput XII, p.140 books.google https://books.google.de/books?pg=PA140&id=qXsEAAAAYAAJ#v letzter Absatz. (Opera omnia, ed. Ch. Frisch, vol. I, 1858)
"Duo theoremata infinitae utilitatis, eoque pretiosissima, sed magnum discrimen tamen est inter utrumque. Nam prius, quod latera recti anguli possint tantum, quantum subtensa recto, hoc inquam recte comparaveris massae auri: alterum, de sectione proportionali, gemmam dixeris. - Mysterii Cosmographici Caput XIII, p.145 books.google https://books.google.de/books?pg=PA140&id=qXsEAAAAYAAJ#v Absatz r. (Opera omnia, ed. Ch. Frisch, vol. I, 1858)
„Wo Materie ist, dort ist auch Geometrie.“
De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus, 1602, Thesis 1, XX, siehe auch: Johannes Kepler: Gesammelte Werke, Band IV, C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, München, 1941, S.15, Zeile 26
Original lat.: "At ubi materia, ibi Geometria." - Opera omnia, ed. Ch. Frisch, vol. I (1858), p.423 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=8icPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA423&dq=ibi
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Aus dem Nachlaß. „Über Literatur und Leben“. Berliner Ausgabe, Kunsttheoretische Schriften und Übersetzungen, Berlin 1960, S. 603, zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20004855620. Auch in: Maximen und Reflexionen. Nach den Handschriften des Goethe- und Schiller-Archivs herausgegeben von Max Hecker. Weimar 1907. S.180 Nr.812 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=aG49AQAAIAAJ&q=kepler.
Kurzform: "in der Schöpfung greife ich Gott gleichsam mit den Händen." - Johann Rogner, Ueber Johannes Kepler's Leben und Wirken, Festrede den 15. October 1871 bei der Vorfeier des 300jährigen Geburtstages Kepler's, Comité der Kepler-Feier, Graz 1871, S, 6,
"Nichts gibt es, was ich mit mehr ängstlicher Genauigkeit untersuche und was ich unbedingt wissen möchte: ob ich Gott, den ich bei der Betrachtung des ganzen Weltalls geradezu mit Händen greife, auch in mir selbst finden kann." - Übersetzung von Jürgen Hübner: „Die Theologie Johannes Keplers zwischen Orthodoxie und Naturwissenschaft.“ J.C.B. Mohr Tübingen 1975, S. 306 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=YX2fmzEdWTQC&pg=PA306
(Original lat.: "nihil enim est quod scrupulosius examinem, quodque adeo scire desiderem: si forte Deum quem in totius Universi contemplatione manibus veluti palpo intra meipsum etiam invenire possim." - Brief Keplers über seine zweite Heirat an Baron von Strahlendorf, 23. Oktober 1613. „Werke“ XVII Nr. 669, 19 ff., hier nach Jürgen Hübner aaO.
alternativ: "Nihil est, quod scrupulosius examinem quodque [...] intra me ipsum etiam invenire possim." - „Epistolae ad Joannem Kepplerum scriptae, insertis ad easdem responsionibus Kepplerianis, quotquot haetenus reperiri potuerunt...“, Ed. M.G. Hanschius, Lipsiae 1718, Ep.358, p.573, hier nach Stark, in: „Zeitschrift für die historische Theologie“, Band 23, Jahrgang 1853, p.638 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=ICADAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA638&dq=573, und Opera omnia, ed. Ch. Frisch, vol. VIII pars II (1871), p.815 archive.org https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_pJicSkl6nVYC#page/n267/mode/2up ab fünftletzte Zeile)
Übersetzung des von Kepler als Grabinschrift verfassten Distichons, nach: Johannes Hoppe: Johannes Kepler, Biographien hervorragender Naturwissenschaftler, Techniker und Mediziner, Band 17, Teubner, Leipzig, 1987, S.84
Himmel durchmaß mein Geist, nun meß ich das Dunkel der Erde, // Ward mir vom Himmel der Geist, ruht hier der irdische Leib.“ - nach Adolf Schmetzer: Johann Keplers Beziehungen zu Regensburg, in: Kepler-Festschrift I. Teil pdf http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Berichte-naturwiss-Ver-Regensburg_19_0001-0355.pdf, herausgegeben von Karl Stöckl, Regensburg 1930, S. 87
Original lat.: "Mensus eram coelos, nunc terrae metior umbras. // Mens coelestis erat, corporis umbra iacet." - Epistolae ad Joannem Kepplerum, ed. Michael Gottlieb Hansch, 1718, p.XXXIII books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=1xplIfZ7B7cC&pg=PR33
Quelle: Johannes Hemleben. Kepler. Die Harmonie der Welt. S.93. ISBN: 978-3499501838
Johannes Kepler: Zitate auf Englisch
Walter William Bryant, Kepler (1920), pp. 16–17
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
“Without proper experiments I conclude nothing.”
Vol. V. p. 224, Vol. I, p. 143
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
Vol. VIII, p. 150
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection (1920) by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, p. 98; also in The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology (2006) by Joseph Silk
Book V, Ch. 7 as quoted in Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers (1959)
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
Vol. VIII, p. 148
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
“There is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move.”
In Terra inest virtus, quae Lunam del.
Essay dedicated to the Archduke Ferdinand, as quoted in Kepler (1993) by Max Caspar, Sect. II, Ch. 9, p. 110
Translation by an unknown person, from De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus, ibid., from the foreword
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Johannes Kepler / Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596) / De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus (1601)
Book III, Ch. 1 as quoted in "Astrology in Kepler's Cosmology" by Judith V. Field, in Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays (1987) edited by P. Curry, p. 154
Geometry, coeternal with God and shining in the divine Mind, gave God the pattern... by which he laid out the world so that it might be best and most beautiful and finally most like the Creator.
As quoted in Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (1988), p. 123
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.
Unsourced variant
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
As quoted in Kepler by Walter William Bryant (1920), p. 35
Astronomia nova (1609)
“Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.”
Vol. VIII, p. 47ff.
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia, ed. Christian Frisch (1858)
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
Quelle: Reported in Methodist Review (1873), vol. 55, pp. 187–88.
Quelle: As quoted in Forty Thousand Sublime and Beautiful Thoughts (1904) ed. Charles Noel Douglas, p. 845. https://books.google.com/books?id=I0ZAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA845
Translation by Burtt, ibid., Vol. III. p. 156
Secondary works, Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia (1858)
As translated and quoted by Bryant, ibid.
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), Astronomia nova (1609)
As translated and quoted in John Freely, Before Galileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012), in chapter 58, at an unspecified page.
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), Astronomia nova (1609)
“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”
Attributed to Kepler in some sources (though more recent sources often attribute it to Euclid), such as Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations edited by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither (1998), p. 214 http://books.google.com/books?id=4abygoxLdwQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA214#v=onepage&q&f=false. The earliest publication located that attributes the quote to Kepler is the piece "The Mathematics of Elementary Chemistry" by Principal J. McIntosh of Fowler Union High School in California, which appeared in School Science and Mathematics, Volume VII ( 1907 http://books.google.com/books?id=kAEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false), p. 383 http://books.google.com/books?id=kAEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA383#v=onepage&q&f=false. Neither this nor any other source located gives a source in Kepler's writings, however, and in an earlier source, the 1888 Notes and Queries, Vol V., it is attributed on p. 165 http://books.google.com/books?id=0qYXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q&f=false to Plato. Expressions that relate geometry to the divine "mind of God" include comments in the Harmonices Mundi, e.g., "Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God", and "Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world".
Disputed quotes
Google search of the second sentence, in quotes, yields a trio of 2019 books alone, most (there and in following) attributing it to Kepler—e.g., see Prof Basden's 2019 work, [Foundations and Practice of Research: Adventures with Dooyeweerd's Philosophy, The Complex Activity of Research [§10—4.1 Less-Obvious Pistic Functioning in Research], Advances in Research Methods, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK, Taylor & Francis-Routledge, 1st, 9781138720688, https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Practice-Research-Adventures-Dooyeweerds/dp/1138720682, February 25, 2020] (page 222).
While most citations of Kepler have been traced back to a translation of an original work, this quotation appears broadly without any such sourcing (e.g., Basden). Where it is sourced, the sources are either spurious (e.g., to the "New World Encyclopedia", a Paragon House/Unification Church product https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/02/arts/unification-church-is-starting-a-publishing-house.html, wherein it is likewise unsourced), or to such sources as Henry Morris' 1988 creationist work, [Men of Science, Men of God: Great Scientists Who Believed the Bible, Green Forest, AR, Master Books, 21st reprint, 9780890510803, https://www.amazon.com/Men-Science-God-Henry-Morris/dp/0890510806, February 25, 2020] (page 21f).
Until a scholarly source is found that ties these statements to an original text from Kepler, they formally must be considered unattributed to Kepler.
Disputed quotes
Book V, Introduction
Variant translation: It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
As quoted in The Martyrs of Science; or, the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler (1841) by David Brewster, p. 197. This has sometimes been misquoted as "It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."
Variant translation: I feel carried away and possessed by an unutterable rapture over the divine spectacle of heavenly harmony... I write a book for the present time, or for posterity. It is all the same to me. It may wait a hundred years for its readers, as God has also waited six thousand years for an onlooker.
As quoted in Calculus. Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), Harmonices Mundi (1618)
