Desire Urges Me On, While

Make Then Your Forecasts, My Lords Astrologers, With Your Slavish Physicians, By Means Of Those Astrolabes With Which You Seek To Discern The Fantastic Nine Moving Spheres; In These You Finally Imprison Your Own Minds, So That You Appear To Me But As Parrots In A Cage, While I Watch You Dancing Up And Down, Turning And Hopping Within Those Circles.

I Have Declared Infinite Worlds To Exist Beside This Our Earth. It Would Not Be Worthy Of God To Manifest Himself In Less Than An Infinite Universe.

Truth Does Not Change Because It Is, Or Is Not, Believed By A Majority Of The People.

There Is No Absolute Up Or Down, As Aristotle Taught; No Absolute Position In Space; But The Position Of A Body Is Relative To That Of Other Bodies. Everywhere There Is Incessant Relative Change In Position Throughout The Universe, And The Observer Is Always At The Center Of Things.

Nature Is None Other Than God In Things. Animals And Plants Are Living Effects Of Nature; Whence All Of God Is In All Things. Think Thus, Of The Sun In The Crocus, In The Narcissus, In The Heliotrope, In The Rooster, In The Lion.