O Telescope, Instrument Of Much Knowledge, More

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

When Ships To Sail The Void Between The Stars Have Been Built, There Will Step Forth Men To Sail These Ships.

My Greatest Desire Is That I May Perceive The God Whom I Find Everywhere In The External World, In Like Manner Also Within And Inside Myself.

O Telescope, Instrument Of Much Knowledge, More Precious Than Any Sceptre!

It May Be Well To Wait A Century For A Reader, As God Has Waited Six Thousand Years For An Observer.