Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.

Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.