Creation Quote by 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.” quote by Christiaan Huygens — Download Open image

“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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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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I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

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Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and…

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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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“We may mount from this dull Earth; and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt. So, like Travellers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what’s done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its…

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These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall…

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What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every…

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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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