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A Man that is of Copernicus’s Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlighten’d by the Sun, like the rest of the Planets, cannot but sometimes think, that it’s not improbable that the rest of the Planets have their Dress and Furniture, and perhaps their Inhabitants too as well as this Earth of ours...

— Christiaan Huygens Cosmotheoros (1695)

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There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

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I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

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 Speck of Dirt.

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