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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.

Geometry, Which Before The Origin Of Things Was Coeternal With The Divine Mind And Is God Himself (for What Could There Be In God Which Would Not Be God Himself?), Supplied God With Patterns For The Creation Of The World, And Passed Over To Man Along With The Image Of God; And Was Not In Fact Taken In Through The Eyes.

There Will Certainly Be No Lack Of Human Pioneers When We Have Mastered The Art Of Flight....let Us Create Vessels And Sails Justed To The Heavenly Ether, And There Will Be Plenty Of People Unafraid Of The Empty Wastes. In The Meantime We Shall Prepare, For The Brave Sky-travelers, Maps Of The Celestial Bodies.

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.

The Cause Of The Six-sided Shape Of A Snowflake Is None Other Than That Of The Ordered Shapes Of Plants And Of Numerical Constants; And Since In Them Nothing Occurs Without Supreme Reason-not, To Be Sure, Such As Discursive Reasoning Discovers, But Such As Existed From The First In The Creators's Design And Is Preserved From That Origin To This Day In The Wonderful Nature Of Animal Faculties, I Do Not Believe That Even In A Snowflake This Ordered Pattern Exists At Random.