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

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.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

God often guides by what He doesn't provide.

I've heard it said that the first law of journalism is to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character