If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

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.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that we could share in his own thoughts... and if piety allow us to say so, our understanding is in this respect of the same kind as the divine, at least as far as we are able to grasp something of it in our mortal life.

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

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