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• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of… — Alfred North Whitehead
• To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra
• There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it… — Thomas Huxley
• Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever… — John Stuart Mill
• Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great… — James Clerk Maxwell
• Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and… — Henry Adams
• I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but… — Emmy Rossum
• When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of… — Steven Kotler
• CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might… — Ambrose Bierce
• In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names… — Arthur Koestler
• I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes,… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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