Quote #10
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More from Rene Descartes
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult d…
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Variants: Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that …
- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.