"I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but……" — 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 work, where the author studies things of little use or when he builds on the improbable principle of attraction. Writing about Newton's Principia. Huygens had some time earlier indicated he did not believe the theory of universal gravitation, saying it 'appears to me absurd.'"
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...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be…
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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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