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«One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
conceive, implausible
«Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
numbers
«I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
concluded, distinctly, general rule
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Posterity
| Keywords:
explained, intentionally, kindly, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, Others The, posterity, so as to, The Pleasure
«Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Senses
| Keywords:
distributed, good sense, supplied with
«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.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Science,
Truth
| Keywords:
fortunes, principal, regard as, sciences, solving, succeeded, The Fortunes, the sciences
«It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.»
«Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
desiring, distributed, endowed, satisfy, well endowed
«If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
conformation, conversely, deduce, deduced, e.g., e g, mathematical
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