I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.