It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

- Christiaan Huygens

We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we …

- Christiaan Huygens

The world is my country. Science my religion.

- 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

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 p…

- 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.

- Christiaan Huygens

...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses…

- Christiaan Huygens

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 Spe…

- Christiaan Huygens

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

- Christiaan Huygens