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Planets' orbits are elliptical. It's a very pleasing shape.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.