"One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves."

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Source : Christiaan Huygens (2015). “Treatise on Light”, p.33, Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens

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“Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.”
“You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.”
“Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
“Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda”
“The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.”
“The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.”
“I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.”
“I want to be in control of drafting at least 80% the timing and cohesiveness of character and narrative. I want to be in control of giving you an experience, and want you to be acknowledged as an audience and can do things but only in a limited scope.”

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