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Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.

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

On How The Motion Of A Planet Defines Its Sphere: ... And Thus It Comes About Gradually By The Linking And Accumulation Of A Great Many Revolutions That A Kind Of Concave Sphere Is Displayed, Having The Same Center As The Sun, Just As By A Great Many Circles Of Silken Thread, Linked With Each Other And Wound Together, The Dwelling Of A Silkworm Is Made.

Astronomy Would Not Provide Me With Bread If Men Did Not Entertain Hopes Of Reading The Future In The Heavens.

We Do Not Ask For What Useful Purpose The Birds Do Sing, For Song Is Their Pleasure Since They Were Created For Singing. Similarly, We Ought Not To Ask Why The Human Mind Troubles To Fathom The Secrets Of The Heavens.