"...great difficulties are felt at first and these……" — Christiaan Huygens
"...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But even so, very much hard work remains to be done and one needs not only great perspicacity but often a degree of good fortune."
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Christiaan Huygens
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10 Quotes by Christiaan Huygens
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I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.
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The world is my country. Science my religion.
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How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all…
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It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.
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The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth…
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One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so…
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I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the…
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The world is my country, science is my religion.
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