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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to Johannes Kepler. --Antiquary 09:39, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

  • And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry. (Gentner 1980, p.1)
  • I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
  • Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
  • So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things
  • Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

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The "shining in the mind of God" quote is by Kepler, but it does not seem to occur in Harmonices Mundi (1618). Rather, I find it is from Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo (1610), edited in KGW [collected works] vol. 4, p. 308, lines 9f, as cited here, verified in the facsimile here, the actual quote reading

Geometria una et aeterna est in mente Dei refulgens: cuius consortium hominibus tributum inter causas est, cur homo sit imago Dei.

--Dbachmann (talk) 09:56, 10 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

Unsourced, continued

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I will begin hiding unsourced quotes that have crept in, today. See decade old statement above, about unattributeed quoted. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 18:27, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your work. I have not had time to examine all of your revisions, or recent ones, but have observed the page needs work and have added a standard "cleanup" tag to it. I also found the "Disputed" heading does not become unavailable in mobile devices — it simply is a reduced sub-heading within the "Quotes" section. ~ ♌︎Kalki·⚓︎ 18:41, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your collegial response to my work. I am a former faculty member, and am rigourous, if not always informed of WP practices. On the disputed section matter, there are different levels and kinds of disputes, and I have not had time to parse these. (It is possible this section will become larger, and require a lot further explanation, just to accomodate issues of material already present.) My approach is simply to ensure that frequently misused/misascribed quotes are the most visible, so the misuse can wane. Let's keep looking at this. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 20:15, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
For further worl today, see the last two edit summaries. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:19D:49BF:AECD:6AA6:2E34 20:15, 25 February 2020 (UTC)Reply