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Christiaan Huygens Quotes: I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.
         

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.


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



The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.



Here 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.

Here 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.



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

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



I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.





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