Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife." - Meaning and context.">
As quoted by Shafique N. Virani, The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, A search for Salvation (2007) p. 28.
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

— Johannes Kepler

What It Means

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Johannes Kepler

About Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler (December 27 1571 – November 15 1630) was a German Lutheran mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and a key figure in the 17th century astronomical revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, which provided one of the foundations of Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation.