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Science Quotes by Rene Descartes
- As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements…
- I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate…
- And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
- The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects…
- Science is practical philosophy.
- Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- 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…
- I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I…
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