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I can't say they are exactly of the same nature with our Water; but that they should be liquid their use requires, as their beauty does that they be clear. For this Water of ours, in Jupiter or Saturn, would be frozen up instantly by reason of the vast distance of the Sun.

— Christiaan Huygens

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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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