The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God an….

It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himse….

Where there is matter, there is geometry..

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife..

Nature uses as little as possible of anything..

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 g….

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, bu….

Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For o….

The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices (perceived by the intellect, not by the ear); a music which... sets landmark….

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..

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him..

Nature loves simplicity and unity..

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question..

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses..

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….

The wisdom of the Lord is infinite as are also His glory and His power. Ye heavens, sing His praises; sun, moon, and planets, glorify Him in your ine….

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..

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation..

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world..

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships..