For my part, I shall be very well contented, and shall count I have done a great matter, if I can but come to any knowledge of the nature of things, as they now are, never troubling my head about their beginning, or how they were made, knowing that to be out of the reach of human Knowledge, or even Conjecture.


The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures Concerning the Planetary Worlds, Their Inhabitants and Productions, Book the Second, Every Sun has a Vortex round it, very different from, those of Cartes (p. 160), Printed for T. Childe. 1698

Christiaan Huygens Quotes

For my part, I shall be very well contented, and shall count I have done a great matter, if I can but come to any knowledge of the nature of things,...

For my part, I shall be very well contented, and shall count I have done a great matter, if I can but come to any knowledge of the nature of things,...

For my part, I shall be very well contented, and shall count I have done a great matter, if I can but come to any knowledge of the nature of things,...

For my part, I shall be very well contented, and shall count I have done a great matter, if I can but come to any knowledge of the nature of things,...