The world is my country, science is my religion.
Christiaan HuygensThe taste of music with the inhabitants of Venus and Jupiter is at a high level, similar to that of Frenchmen or Italians.
Christiaan HuygensWe 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. So, like Travellers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what’s done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing. 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 know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorn’d as well as our own.
Christiaan HuygensHow vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.
Christiaan HuygensTags: life people war ambition reflection earth navigation space sacrifice theatre planets princes kings masters pitiful extrasolar-planets shortsighted
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