7 quotes
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
No operation of addition or subtraction gives rise to diversity, but all are equally related to their pair of Terms, or Elements.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
The Earth sings Mi-Fa-Mi, so we can gather ever from this that Misery and Famine reign in our habitat.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)
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 (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.
Harmonices Mundi (1618)