Descartes Quotes

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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 RenÃ© 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, Pascalâ€¦ like all… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
A long time ago, Descartes sad, â€œI think, therefore I am.â€ 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

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