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The Cause Of The Six-sided Shape Of A Snowflake Is None Other Than That Of The Ordered Shapes Of Plants And Of Numerical Constants; And Since In Them Nothing Occurs Without Supreme Reason-not, To Be Sure, Such As Discursive Reasoning Discovers, But Such As Existed From The First In The Creators's Design And Is Preserved From That Origin To This Day In The Wonderful Nature Of Animal Faculties, I Do Not Believe That Even In A Snowflake This Ordered Pattern Exists At Random.

As Soon As Somebody Demonstrates The Art Of Flying, Settlers From Our Species Of Man Will Not Be Lacking On The Moon And Jupiter. Who Would Have Believed That A Huge Ocean Could Be Crossed More Peacefully And Safely Than The The Narrow Expanse Of The Adriatic, The Baltic Sea Or The English Channel? Given Ships Or Sails Adapted To The Breezes Of Heaven, There Will Be Those Who Will Not Shrink From Even That Vast Expanse.

I Am Much Occupied With The Investigation Of The Physical Causes [of Motions In The Solar System]. My Aim In This Is To Show That The Celestial Machine Is To Be Likened Not To A Divine Organism But Rather To A Clockwork ... Insofar As Nearly All The Manifold Movements Are Carried Out By Means Of A Single, Quite Simple Magnetic Force. This Physical Conception Is To Be Presented Through Calculation And Geometry.

So Long As The Mother, Ignorance, Lives, It Is Not Safe For Science The Offspring, To Divulge The Hidden Causes Of Things.

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.