The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.

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

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.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

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.

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.