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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Rene Descartes
Powerful, Knowledge, Math
RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes
Math, Men, Numbers

Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.

Rene Descartes
Math, Giving, Give Me

With me, everything turns into mathematics.

Rene Descartes
Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes
Math, Two, Understanding
RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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.

Rene Descartes
Math, Science, Discovery
Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.

Rene Descartes
Fall, Mean, Math

When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

Rene Descartes
Writing, Math, Issues

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 knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

Rene Descartes
Nature, Math, Animal

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.

Rene Descartes
War, Math, Battle

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.

Rene Descartes
Math, Principles, Might

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