Random Quotes from an Astrodynamics book..

[natwamblz]

Kepler, the poor and sickly mathematician, unfitted by nature for accurate observations, was gifted with the patience and innate mathematical perception needed to unlock the secrets hidden in Tycho's data.

The challenge of rediscovering the insignificant clod of dirt when it reappeared from behind the sun seduced the intellect of Gauss and he calculated as he had never calculated before.

I didn't make those up. Directly out of a published science book...