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.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens...
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
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[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.
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.'
Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
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.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.
I am a Lutheran astrologer, I throw away the nonsense and keep the hard kernel.
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre.
Where there is matter, there is geometry.
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Nature loves simplicity and unity.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.
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 has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.
