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

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.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

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.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.