There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.
Rene DescartesMathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Rene DescartesWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene DescartesA person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
Rene Descartes[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
Rene Descartes