"Kepler was the first to discover the art of successfully inquiring [into] her laws of nature, since his predecessors merely constructed explanatory concepts which they endeavoured to apply to the course of nature."
— Johannes Kepler

January 1, 1970

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E. F. Apelt, Epcchen der Geschichte der Menscheit, Vol. I, p. 243 as quoted by Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science (1925)