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The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: Celestial Worlds Disco QUOTES

The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: Celestial Worlds Disco QUOTES

1 " How 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 Huygens , The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: Celestial Worlds Disco

2 " 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 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 Huygens , The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: Celestial Worlds Disco