Why Are Things As They Are And

The Roads By Which Men Arrive At Their Insights Into Celestial Matters Seem To Me Almost As Worthy Of Wonder As Those Matters In Themselves.

The Radius Vector Describes Equal Areas In Equal Times.

A Most Unfailing Experience... Of The Excitement Of Sublunary (that Is, Human) Natures By The Conjunctions And Aspects Of The Planets Has Instructed And Compelled My Unwilling Belief.

Some Of What These Pamphlets [of Astrological Forecasts] Say Will Turn Out To Be True, But Most Of It Time And Experience Will Expose As Empty And Worthless. The Latter Part Will Be Forgotten Literally: Written On The Winds While The Former Will Be Carefully Entered In People's Memories, As Is Usual With The Crowd.

I Had The Intention Of Becoming A Theologian...but Now I See How God Is, By My Endeavors, Also Glorified In Astronomy, For 'the Heavens Declare The Glory Of God.'