"One wonders how many modern scientists faced by a similar situation in their work would fail to be impressed by such remarkable numerical coincidences."
— Johannes Kepler

January 1, 1970

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Fred Hoyle on Kepler's attention to the apparent harmonics by which he deduced his planetary laws, as quoted in "Kepler's Astrology and Mysticism" by Arthur Beer in Vistas in Astronomy vol. 18 (1975).