Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

Surely It Is A Great Thing To Increase The Numerous Host Of Fixed Stars Previously Visible To The Unaided Vision, Adding Countless More Which Have Never Before Been Seen, Exposing These Plainly To The Eye In Numbers Ten Times Exceeding The Old And Familiar Stars.

The Prohibition Of Science Would Be Contrary To The Bible, Which In Hundreds Of Places Teaches Us How The Greatness And The Glory Of God Shine Forth Marvelously In All His Works, And Is To Be Read Above All In The Open Book Of The Heavens.

Knowing Thyself, That Is The Greatest Wisdom.

To Command Their Professors Of Astronomy To Refute Their Own Observations Is To Command Them Not To See What They Do See And Not To Understand What They Do Understand.

Among The Great Men Who Have Philosophized About [the Action Of The Tides], The One Who Surprised Me Most Is Kepler. He Was A Person Of Independent Genius, [but He] Became Interested In The Action Of The Moon On The Water, And In Other Occult Phenomena, And Similar Childishness.