Knowledge Quotes by Christiaan Huygens

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

— Christiaan Huygens

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

— Christiaan Huygens

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

— Christiaan Huygens

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

— Christiaan Huygens

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and…

— Christiaan Huygens

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

— Christiaan Huygens

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

— Christiaan Huygens

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all…

— Christiaan Huygens

“We may mount from this dull Earth; and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery…

— Christiaan Huygens

These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall…

— Christiaan Huygens

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every…

— Christiaan Huygens

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his…

— Christiaan Huygens