Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

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.

We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world, unconsciously remembers it, and remains sensitive to the return of configurations of a similar kind.