"The world is my country, science is my religion" - Christiaan Huygens
Four centuries ago, the Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens was able to communicate clearly and in a few words, what world leaders in the 21st century can still not understand.
Elected leaders of the free world still fight wars based on holy whispers and believe in divine truths that justify ravaging lives in the carrying-out of their just crusades.
The answers to our problems lie in our past. We should dare to dig deeper.
Ask why.
Elected leaders of the free world still fight wars based on holy whispers and believe in divine truths that justify ravaging lives in the carrying-out of their just crusades.
The answers to our problems lie in our past. We should dare to dig deeper.
Ask why.
posted by Hooman at 5:30 PM
2 Comments:
I absolutely LOVE that Huygens quote. I live by it as a musician and astrophysicist. I was just watching "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, and he was talking about Christian Huygens and Constantine Huygens (Christian's father). Sagan said that it was actually Constantine that said that quote, "the world is my country, science my religion" - not his son Christian. Is that true?
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