Nature Uses As Little As

If This [the Mysterium Cosmographicum] Is Published, Others Will Perhaps Make Discoveries I Might Have Reserved For Myself. But We Are All Ephemeral Creatures (and None More So Than I). I Have, Therefore, For The Glory Of God, Who Wants To Be Recognized From The Book Of Nature, That These Things May Be Published As Quickly As Possible. The More Others Build On My Work The Happier I Shall Be.

If The Moon And Earth Were Not Retained In Their Orbits By Their Animal Force Or Some Other Equivalent, The Earth Would Mount To The Moon By A Fifty-fourth Part Of Their Distance, And The Moon Fall Towards The Earth Through The Other Fifty-three Parts, And They Would There Meet, Assuming, However, That The Substance Of Both Is Of The Same Density.

Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.

When Ships To Sail The Void Between The Stars Have Been Built, There Will Step Forth Men To Sail These Ships.

I Had The Intention Of Becoming A Theologian...but Now I See How God Is, By My Endeavors, Also Glorified In Astronomy, For 'the Heavens Declare The Glory Of God.'