One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
