The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio

“Having witnessed in his own life much agony and the horrors of war, Kepler concluded that Earth really created two notes, mi for misery (‘miseria’ in Latin) and fa for famine (‘fames’ in Latin). In Kepler’s words: ‘the Earth sings MI FA MI, so that even from the syllable you may guess that in this home of ours Misery and Famine hold sway.”

-Mario Livio, 2002