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Johannes Kepler on Divine Image

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler

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The laws of nature are within the grasp of the human mind; God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts.

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“Letter to Bavarian Chancellor Herwart von Hohenburg,” Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters, page 50, Carola Baumgardt, Philosophical Library, 1951

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