Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

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.

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

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