Nature Loves Simplicity And Unity.

We Find, Therefore, Under This Orderly Arrangement, A Wonderful Symmetry In The Universe, And A Definite Relation Of Harmony In The Motion And Magnitude Of The Orbs, Of A Kind That Is Not Possible To Obtain In Any Other Way.

I Myself, A Professional Mathematician, On Re-reading My Own Work Find It Strains My Mental Powers To Recall To Mind From The Figures The Meanings Of The Demonstrations, Meanings Which I Myself Originally Put Into The Figures And The Text From My Mind. But When I Attempt To Remedy The Obscurity Of The Material By Putting In Extra Words, I See Myself Falling Into The Opposite Fault Of Becoming Chatty In Something Mathematical.

God Gives Every Animal The Means Of Saving Its Life-why Object If He Gives Astrology To The Astronomer?

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.

Astronomy Would Not Provide Me With Bread If Men Did Not Entertain Hopes Of Reading The Future In The Heavens.