I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars and it has no motion from place to place.