Nature Uses As Little As Possible Of

...those Laws Are Within The Grasp Of The Human Mind. God Wanted Us To Recognize Them By Creating Us After His Own Image So That We Could Share In His Own Thoughts... And If Piety Allow Us To Say So, Our Understanding Is In This Respect Of The Same Kind As The Divine, At Least As Far As We Are Able To Grasp Something Of It In Our Mortal Life.

Either... The Moving Intelligences Of The Planets Are Weakest In Those That Are Farthest From The Sun, Or... There Is One Moving Intelligence In The Sun, The Common Center, Forcing Them All Round, But Those Most Violently Which Are Nearest, And That It Languishes In Some Sort And Grows Weaker At The Most Distant, Because Of The Remoteness And The Attenuation Of The Virtue.

We Do Not Ask What Hope Of Gain Makes A Little Bird Warble, Since We Know That It Takes Delight In Singing Because It Is For That Very Singing That The Bird Was Made, So There Is No Need To Ask Why The Human Mind Undertakes Such Toil In Seeking Out These Secrets Of The Heavens. ... And Just As Other Animals, And The Human Body, Are Sustained By Food And Drink, So The Very Spirit Of Man, Which Is Something Distinct From Man, Is Nourished, Is Increased, And In A Sense Grows Up On This Diet Of Knowledge, And Is More Like The Dead Than The Living If It Is Touched By No Desire For These Things.

If The Moon And Earth Were Not Retained In Their Orbits By Their Animal Force Or Some Other Equivalent, The Earth Would Mount To The Moon By A Fifty-fourth Part Of Their Distance, And The Moon Fall Towards The Earth Through The Other Fifty-three Parts, And They Would There Meet, Assuming, However, That The Substance Of Both Is Of The Same Density.

God Gives Every Animal The Means Of Saving Its Life-why Object If He Gives Astrology To The Astronomer?