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“ ”those who move but very slowly, may advance much farther, if they always follow the right way; then those who run and straggle from it.
About René Descartes
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.
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Additional quotes by René Descartes
...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
Ο πρώτος είναι να μη δέχομαι τίποτα ως αληθινό αν δεν γνωρίζω ότι είναι τεκμηριωμένο: να αποφεύγω, δηλαδή, προσεκτικά τη βιασύνη και τις προκαταλήψεις και να μην υιοθετώ ως δική μου κρίση τίποτα που να μην εμφανίζεται στο μυαλό μου με τρόπο τόσο σαφή και διακριτό ώστε να μην έχω κανέναν λόγο να το αμφισβητήσω.
I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.