Once Miracles Are Admitted, Every Scientific Explanation

Geometry Has Two Great Treasures; One Is The Theorem Of Pythagoras; The Other, The Division Of A Line Into Extreme And Mean Ratio. The First We May Compare To A Measure Of Gold; The Second We May Name A Precious Jewel.

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.

I Am Stealing The Golden Vessels Of The Egyptians To Build A Tabernacle To My God From Them, Far Far Away From The Boundaries Of Egypt. If You Forgive Me, I Shall Rejoice; If You Are Enraged With Me, I Shall Bear It. See, I Cast The Die, And I Write The Book. Whether It Is To Be Read By The People Of The Present Or Of The Future Makes No Difference: Let It Await Its Reader For A Hundred Years, If God Himself Has Stood Ready For Six Thousand Years For One To Study Him.

I Measured The Skies, Now The Shadows I Measure, Sky-bound Was The Mind, Earth-bound The Body Rests. [kepler's Epitaph]

Geometry, Which Before The Origin Of Things Was Coeternal With The Divine Mind And Is God Himself (for What Could There Be In God Which Would Not Be God Himself?), Supplied God With Patterns For The Creation Of The World, And Passed Over To Man Along With The Image Of God; And Was Not In Fact Taken In Through The Eyes.