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

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.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

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

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

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.