Attraction Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

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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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How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in…

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

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