Eyesight should learn from reason.

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

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

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

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

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.'

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, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

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

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.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Experience cold or heat pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

I study history in order to give an interpretation.

Nothing erodes [a mother's love]. It is not sand on a beach. It is the nuclear heart of things-hard as the rock of this earth.

When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

That's what friends are for. The people who aren't in your life 'cause they're related, or hot for you. They just love you.

I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.

Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.

Wanting to transform the World it is impossible without the blaze of love. Only love can truly transform the World.