May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child.

I'm thirty-four.""You don't look thirty-four.""That's because I'm not married." Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. "Marriage tends to age a woman.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

You just can't take the doctor out of you.

I miss her, but I don't want to see her.

Racism springs from ignorance.