Christiaan Huygens Quotes - Scientific, Inspiring, Interesting, Entertaining Thoughts of Famous Dutch Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Astronomer, Discoverer of Titan, Pendulum Clock Inventor

Christiaan Huygens was born on July 8, 1695 in The Hague, Dutch Republic, who was Lord of Geelhem, a famous Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer and inventor. He is considered to have made a significant contribution to the scientific revolution. Huygens made fundamental contributions to optics and mechanics in physics, and as an astronomer, he studied the rings of Saturn and discovered its largest moon, Titan. As an engineer and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes, in addition to this, another important work was the invention of the pendulum clock, which was the most accurate time-measure for about 300 years.

The works of the immensely talented mathematician and physicist Christiaan Huygens include the first idealization of physical problems through a set of mathematical parameters and the first mathematical and mechanistic explanation of an unobservable physical phenomenon. Christiaan Huygens was born in The Hague on 14 April 1629. Here are some scientific, inspiring, interesting, entertaining thoughts of Christiaan Huygens

The inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter have a high taste for music, similar to the French or Italians.

What a wonderful and astonishing scheme of the magnificent vastness of the universe we have before us! So many suns, so many earths, and in each of them so many herbs, trees and animals, and so many seas and mountains! And how much does our wonder and admiration increase when we consider the extraordinary distance and multitude of the stars?

I greatly respect his understanding and subtlety, but I think they have been misused in large parts of his work, where the author studies less useful things.

How vast must those spheres be in comparison with them, and how small is this earth, the theatre on which all our mighty designs, all our navigation, and all our wars are carried on. A very fit subject of thought and contemplation for those kings and princes who sacrifice the lives of so many, only to gratify their ambition of becoming masters of some miserable corner of this little space.

I believe that we know nothing with certainty, but know everything probabilistically.

The world is my country, science is my religion.

One may imagine light spreading out successively by spherical waves.

There are many degrees of probability, some more nearer to the truth, the determination of which is the chief exercise of our judgment.

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

It is evident that God had no plan to make a special calculation in the Holy Scriptures for all the works of His creation.

Great difficulties are felt at the outset and these cannot be overcome without beginning with experiments, and then forming some hypotheses, but still, much hard work remains to be done and this requires not only much understanding but often a certain amount of good fortune.

Here we can rise above this monotonous earth, and, looking at it from above, consider whether nature has bestowed all her worth and splendour on this little speck of dust.

The rest of the planets have their clothes and furniture, and also their inhabitants, just as this earth of ours has.

We shall be less inclined to admire what this world calls great, we shall despise the trivial things on which common people lavish their affection, when we know that there are many earths inhabited and adorned just like our own.

I have no objection that Newton is not a Cartesian, provided he does not give us such notions as attraction.

These gentlemen should be told that they take too great a burden upon themselves when they pretend to decide how far and how far men shall go in their pursuits, and set the limits of other people's industry, as if they knew the ends which God has set for knowledge.

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

Now since they agree in so many things, what can be more probable than that they agree in others. And that the other planets are as beautiful and as full of inhabitants as the earth? Or what shadow of argument can there be why they should not be?

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