Eyesight Should Learn From Reason.

So Long As The Mother, Ignorance, Lives, It Is Not Safe For Science The Offspring, To Divulge The Hidden Causes Of Things.

We Do Not Ask What Hope Of Gain Makes A Little Bird Warble, Since We Know That It Takes Delight In Singing Because It Is For That Very Singing That The Bird Was Made, So There Is No Need To Ask Why The Human Mind Undertakes Such Toil In Seeking Out These Secrets Of The Heavens. ... And Just As Other Animals, And The Human Body, Are Sustained By Food And Drink, So The Very Spirit Of Man, Which Is Something Distinct From Man, Is Nourished, Is Increased, And In A Sense Grows Up On This Diet Of Knowledge, And Is More Like The Dead Than The Living If It Is Touched By No Desire For These Things.

[god] Is The Kind Creator Who Brought Forth Nature Out Of Nothing.

I Used To Measure The Heavens, Now I Measure The Shadows Of Earth. The Mind Belonged To Heaven, The Body's Shadow Lies Here.

He Who Will Please The Crowd And For The Sake Of The Most Ephemeral Renown Will Either Proclaim Those Things Which Nature Does Not Display Or Even Will Publish Genuine Miracles Of Nature Without Regard To Deeper Causes Is A Spiritually Corrupt Person... With The Best Of Intentions I Publicly Speak To The Crowd (which Is Eager For Things New) On The Subject Of What Is To Come.