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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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Nothing comes out of nothing.
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[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
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Few look for truth many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
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