[god] Is The Kind Creator Who Brought

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.

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.

Science Is The Process Of Thinking God's Thoughts After Him.

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.

Ships And Sails Proper For The Heavenly Air Should Be Fashioned. Then There Will Also Be People, Who Do Not Shrink From The Dreary Vastness Of Space.