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> [I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-believe-that-we-do-not-know-anything-for-certain-but-everything/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

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> [I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-do-not-believe-anything-very-certainly-but-everything-very-probably/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

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## Other authors on Probably

## More 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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/there-are-many-degrees-of-probable-some-nearer-truth-than-others-in/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

> [One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/one-may-conceive-light-to-spread-successively-by-spherical-waves/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

> [I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-believe-that-we-do-not-know-anything-for-certain-but-everything/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-do-not-mind-at-all-that-newton-is-not-a-cartesian-provided-he-does/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/here-we-may-mount-from-this-dull-earth-and-viewing-it-from-on-high/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/it-s-evident-god-had-no-design-to-make-a-particular-enumeration-in/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

> [It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/it-is-surrounded-by-a-thin-flat-ring-inclined-to-the-ecliptic-and/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/how-vast-those-orbs-must-be-and-how-inconsiderable-this-earth-the/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/we-may-mount-from-this-dull-earth-and-viewing-it-from-on-high/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/these-gentlemen-must-be-told-that-they-take-too-much-upon-themselves/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/what-a-wonderful-and-amazing-scheme-have-we-here-of-the-magnificent/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-esteem-his-understanding-and-subtlety-highly-but-i-consider-that/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-esteem-his-understanding-and-subtlety-highly-but-i-consider-that-2/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

> [I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/i-had-not-thought-of-this-regular-decrease-of-gravity-namely-that-it/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

> [...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christiaan-huygens/great-difficulties-are-felt-at-first-and-these-cannot-be-overcome/)

[Christiaan Huygens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christiaan-huygens/)

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