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
Mathematical
With me, everything turns
With me, everything turns into mathematics.
Rene Descartes
These long chains of
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
Perfect numbers like perfect
Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
Rene Descartes
Each problem that I
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
Mathematics is a more
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Rene Descartes
It is not enough
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes
So mathematical truth prefers
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
Tycho Brahe