I Myself, A Professional Mathematician, On Re-reading

The Diversity Of The Phenomena Of Nature Is So Great, And The Treasures Hidden In The Heavens So Rich, Precisely In Order That The Human Mind Shall Never Be Lacking In Fresh Nourishment.

Nothing Which Consists Of Corporeal Matter Is Absolutely Light, But That Is Comparatively Lighter Which Is Rarer, Either By Its Own Nature, Or By Accidental Heat. And It Is Not To Be Thought That Light Bodies Are Escaping To The Surface Of The Universe While They Are Carried Upwards, Or That They Are Not Attracted By The Earth. They Are Attracted, But In A Less Degree, And So Are Driven Outwards By The Heavy Bodies; Which Being Done, They Stop, And Are Kept By The Earth In Their Own Place.

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.

Thus God Himself Was Too Kind To Remain Idle And Began To Play The Game Of Signatures Signing His Likeness Unto The World: Therefore I Chance To Think That All Nature And The Graceful Sky Are Symbolized In The Art Of Geometria.

If My False Figures Came Near To The Facts, This Happened Merely By Chance ... These Comments Are Not Worth Printing. Yet It Gives Me Pleasure To Remember How Many Detours I Had To Make, Along How Many Walls I Had To Grope In The Darkness Of My Ignorance Until I Found The Door Which Lets In The Light Of The Truth ... In Such Manner Did I Dream Of The Truth.