Descartes Quotes
40 quotes by 36 authors
-
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— 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 as it is. Such an…
— Thomas Huxley
-
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
-
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of…
— John Stuart Mill
-
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the…
— 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 himself
— Henry Adams
-
I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball…
— Emmy Rossum
-
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them…
— Steven Kotler
-
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and…
— Arthur Koestler
-
I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all…
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy
-
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.†But if you are not thinking, what?
— Seungsahn
-
The fact that science led me to spiritual insight is appropriate because the latest discoveries in physics and cell research are forging new links between…
— Bruce H. Lipton
-
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton…
— Voltaire
-
I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed…
— Michele Gorman
-
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method
— Nicholas Murray Butler
-
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
-
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.
— James Mark Baldwin
Who Wrote These Descartes Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 40 Descartes Quotes, led by these top contributors: