Quote #11

The last rule was to make enumerations so complete, and reviews so comprehensive, that I should be certain of omitting nothing.

More from Rene Descartes

  1. Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
  2. The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult d…
  3. The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
  4. Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
  5. The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
  6. One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
  7. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
  8. Je pense, donc je suis.

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