Christiaan Huygens Quotes

A Man That Is Of Copernicus' Opinion, That This Earth Of Ours Is A Planet, Carry'd Round And Enlightn'd By The Sun, Like The Rest Of Them, Cannot But Sometimes Have A Fancy ... That The Rest Of The Planets Have Their Dress And Furniture, Nay And Their Inhabitants Too As Well As This Earth Of Ours. ... But We Were Always Apt To Conclude, That 'twas In Vain To Enquire After What Nature Had Been Pleased To Do There, Seeing There Was No Likelihood Of Ever Coming To An End Of The Enquiry ... But A While Ago, Thinking Somewhat Seriously On This Matter (not That I Count My Self Quicker Sighted Than Those Great Men [of The Past], But That I Had The Happiness To Live After Most Of Them) Me Thoughts The Enquiry Was Not So Impracticable Nor The Way So Stopt Up With Difficulties, But That There Was Very Good Room Left For Probable Conjectures.

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