Wheresoever The Earth May Be

O Telescope, Instrument Of Much Knowledge, More Precious Than Any Sceptre!

Since Geometry Is Co-eternal With The Divine Mind Before The Birth Of Things, God Himself Served As His Own Model In Creating The World (for What Is There In God Which Is Not God?), And He With His Own Image Reached Down To Humanity.

Repudiating The Sensible World, Which He Neither Sees Himself Nor Believes From Those Who Have, The Peripatetic Joins Combat By Childish Quibbling In A World On Paper, And Denies The Sun Shines Because He Himself Is Blind.

Without Proper Experiments I Conclude Nothing.

The Roads By Which Men Arrive At Their Insights Into Celestial Matters Seem To Me Almost As Worthy Of Wonder As Those Matters In Themselves.