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.

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

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and since in them nothing occurs without supreme reason-not, to be sure, such as discursive reasoning discovers, but such as existed from the first in the Creators's design and is preserved from that origin to this day in the wonderful nature of animal faculties, I do not believe that even in a snowflake this ordered pattern exists at random.

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

I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him.

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.