Truth Is The Daughter Of Time, And

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 Out Of Him And Through Him, And In Him Are All Things..... We Know, Oh, So Little. To Him Be The Praise, The Honor And The Glory From Eternity To Eternity.

If My False Figures Came Near To The Facts, This Happened Merely By Chance ... These Comments Are Not Worth Printing. Yet It Gives Me Pleasure To Remember How Many Detours I Had To Make, Along How Many Walls I Had To Grope In The Darkness Of My Ignorance Until I Found The Door Which Lets In The Light Of The Truth ... In Such Manner Did I Dream Of The Truth.

If This [the Mysterium Cosmographicum] Is Published, Others Will Perhaps Make Discoveries I Might Have Reserved For Myself. But We Are All Ephemeral Creatures (and None More So Than I). I Have, Therefore, For The Glory Of God, Who Wants To Be Recognized From The Book Of Nature, That These Things May Be Published As Quickly As Possible. The More Others Build On My Work The Happier I Shall Be.

We Find, Therefore, Under This Orderly Arrangement, A Wonderful Symmetry In The Universe, And A Definite Relation Of Harmony In The Motion And Magnitude Of The Orbs, Of A Kind That Is Not Possible To Obtain In Any Other Way.

Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.