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.

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

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

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

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

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.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God