So Long As The Mother,

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.

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.

Discover The Force Of The Skies O Men: Once Recognised It Can Be Put To Use.

Every Corporeal Substance, So Far Forth As It Is Corporeal, Has A Natural Fitness For Resting In Every Place Where It May Be Situated By Itself Beyond The Sphere Of Influence Of A Body Cognate With It.

Since We Astronomers Are Priests Of The Highest God In Regard To The Book Of Nature, It Befits Us To Be Thoughtful, Not Of The Glory Of Our Minds, But Rather, Above All Else, Of The Glory Of God.